Why does YC needs to grow into 2000 companies/ year program?
I feel they should tackle it like a University. Stanford does not try to grow 10x from 20k students to 200k students.<p>Part of the appeal is exclusivity (besides of course its hard to scale).<p>I'd rather see YC at 200-300 companies a year - and ensuring these companies continue to grow/ succeed after the batch is over rather than churning out 1000 more.
The first batch of YC founders photo is a bit heartbreaking. Aaron next to Sam next to pg and Jessica on the left. The latter batches benefited from the learnings, but this batch must have been so much more personal.
It is slightly depressing, but on some level it makes sense to increase quantity when quality is going down. There are just too many me-too startups and a lot of time, money and effort is wasted around startups that revolve around marketing and advertising. Probably on fintech too. Playing the number games around those can certainly work.<p>A local start-up incubator is just about finished constructing a second building with a lot of facilities and laboritories for bio-tech start-ups. I feel that is an interesting approach and could be interesting for YCR also.