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This used to be a forum for startup-folk, not wanna-be-FAANG-employees.

There's a lot of sense in this post. There's not a lot of sense in the reaction here.

>>drewco+(OP)
What do you think the goal of “startup folks” were if not to get acquired by FAANG or other BigTech adjacent companies?

Out of the literally thousands of companies that YC has invested in, only about a dozen have gone public.

YC is not interested in “lifestyle companies” that are a profitable ongoing concern it is interested in the “exit”

>>drewco+(OP)
An accurate rebrand could be renaming this place from “hackernews” to “middle manager IT dad news.”

>>scarfa+F
Yeah, no, that's definitely not the story YC sells though.