[Helianthus]

This place is an elitist microcosm of the networking hell that is silicon valley.

I come here because I'm part of the tech world. It's just that the tech world is a corrupt, greedy place--Y Combinator included.

[mikeurbanski]

Well, how are you working to change that?

We've made the decision to run our company like a free software project and have been actively ignoring buyout/funding offers since before we launched.

We'll keep applying to YC, but, considering they didn't even read our last application, I'd say it's a fair bet that we'll get to keep running our company our way for the foreseeable future.

[Helianthus]

I've never quite understood the impulse to ask that critics be free from blame, as if one must have a solution in order to recognize a problem.

That said, I as a programmer do not work for a tech startup and have quit jobs I felt were complicit in greedy mania.

Another way of looking at it--why is it my problem that the technology sector is dominated by greed?