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YC is not a public entity; they don't owe you a seat. Just because you don't get one doesn't mean they're in the wrong.

Besides, if this is the standard of investigative journalism ("waaah, I couldn't get in! let's cast aspersions!"), I think that any group would be in the right to reject the author on journalistic merit.

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Yeah it seems that YC made the right choice by not letting them in. I can imagine YC being a little picky about what press they would allow into Demo Day because they only want positive news about their start-ups...and who can blame them? I don't have anything against Pando, but I've never heard of them until now, yet I've been familiar with TechCrunch for a long time. YC is comfortable with them and this is there event, therefore, they have the final say in who can attend...even if it only is TechCrunch.

The only bad press is no press. Especially so when no one knows who you are.

And now you know who Pando is, mission accomplished. They just want to join in riding the demo day media wave, but were denied access to actually write about the demos.

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