[thoman23]

I was going to make a similar comment. There is an undercurrent of "raising money = success" in this posting. The whole concept of throwing money at 21-year olds and hoping they find an idea still seems bizarre to me, but obviously it has paid off for the YC guys.

[cheepin]

"For the first time in my life, I had impostor syndrome: I convinced myself that I did not deserve the success I had achieved."

This particularly struck me as ironic. Maybe he felt like an imposter because the other people had an actual plan and he didn't.