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You should give founders these notes from the application during YC. It's gotta be brutally honest, probably more so than you are to someone's face.

I don't actually write this stuff down. That was just what my train of thought was while reading the application.

Beautiful, thanks for the insight into the process.

Would you be so kind and create a public archive of YC applications (with of course the applicant's consent) for us to mull over?

Regardless whether you oblige or not, all those applications, all those admitted (and rejected) to the YC, and the life-time of their startup or, if they're fortunate enough, the state of their startup would serve a most interesting entry-point for an essay.

How did the A's and A-'s from other years do?