[Locke1689]

Out of curiosity, what makes you think that managing YC is n^2? Certainly everyone would need to communicate with you -- that's n. The question is whether or not each YC pair would need to communicate with each other. That is n^2 and seems like an excessively high level of message passing.

[argonaut]

Human memory is not linear. The difference between having 10 teams and having to remember their names and their ideas and their challenges and remembering 20 teams is more than a 2x increase in difficulty.

[pg]

In its then form, every partner had to know what every startup was doing, and the number of partners was a function of the number of startups.

[tptacek]

So n log n.

[pg]

The number of partners you need is not the log of the number of startups. It's more like n/15.