Now, I can't profess to know pg's reasons for not doing that, but he definitely shouldn't! Why? This would start him on that long, slippery slope of becoming a manager, i.e. the sad metamorphosis from a hand-on, still living technology throughly person, to one who interacts it secondhand, through ideas only.<p>Look around in any large company, you will see these guys who were once brilliant engineers but now just don't have the time to code.<p>Unfortunately, with YC getting bigger and more prominent by the day, I think this may be inevitable.