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Because people do not criticize the alma-mater and mentor, especially as influential as, YC (and by extension PG) in public.

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Just my thoughts... I think a lot of the people that have a bad experience did so by their own actions. A lot of people flame out during YC... but that it's because of founder issues, personal issues, legal problems... etc.

They just quietly go away.

Likewise, a lot of the greater YC success stories did it mostly by their own actions.

Doesn't seem to have stopped people criticizing VC firms.

VCs are a dime a dozen. YC is a network.

You think there's a dozen Sequoias or DFJs ?

Have there been any "Sequoia invested in me and totally fucked me over" posts? I'd guess there have been very few if any.

Someone hasn't seen the Facebook movie then :-)

My understanding is that the relationship depicted between Sean Parker/Sequoia in the film is pretty close to the reality.

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