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I don't think there's an implication that a YC company would be more moral, just that they'd be doing something a little more interesting or subtle than the same old crap sleaze balls have been pulling for years now.

It's like finding that someone has got through the YC selection process based on a business model which involves putting "sex, horny, porn" in the title of each page on their website.

http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

That rings kind of hollow after Blecharczyk ("among the nicest of all the people we've funded") was outed as an unrepentant habitual spammer. YC is demonstrably not immune to scumbags, which is not to say that other angels and VCs do better.

(For those who'd have to look it up: this refers to AirBnb.)

From PG's article:

"Microsoft isn't so benevolent now. Now when one thinks of what Microsoft does to users, all the verbs that come to mind begin with F."

This is why it's easy to cast YC's funding of a crapware company as a deliberate choice.

Presumably it's hard to get into YC without a "different angle".

"Its about the team, not the idea".