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Finally, a story in which YC misjudged... :)

Congrats...

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Misjudged? Not necessarily.

While getting acquired is cool for the founders, getting acquired so early is usually not in YC's interest and I doubt they'd have too much regret over (what is likely) a super-small acquisition.

YC may also suffer from an embarrassment of riches, where they have more good startups than they have resources to fund.

Not sure that is in any way a failure or suffering. I think its a great success. Look at MIT's move to give away its courseware online. They don't think it will hurt them in the foreseeable future. Is MIT losing out by not solving the problem of expanding the number of paying students they can take in? They don't think so.

Sour grapes

May be you can elaborate.

Not saying I agree with the 'misjudged' comment, but it seems baseless to think that raffi couldn't have held out for more, later.

I think you'll find that YC is littered with failures (startups missed, and those chosen that failed). That's the great thing about the model. At this scale they have the ability to do so.

I think it will be an awesome case study to have an essay on what went behind choosing every startup@YC till now and more startups can be added after every funding cycle. Then talking about the YC funded startup success/failure stories with lessons learned. So, a separate essay describing what was YCs initial thought process/criteria in choosing them, how that startup developed and lessons learned depending on success/failure

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