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0 pointstmpz226y ago0 comments

> You're on ycombinator, the center of Bay Area tech culture

Citation needed. I think YC users think they are the center of tech (or the universe?).

What would be that actual proof that it was? Do we know how many users HN has? What % of VC actually spend time here? What % of meaningful founders actually spend time here? Ya the CEO of github will drop a post on a major thread concerning his company, but so what?

Honestly the more time I spend here the more I see two notable demographics: cynics trying to feel superior (like myself), and people trying to justify their own salary and lifestyles via a fat FANNG paycheck.

P.S. and college students / recent grads who know everything.

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proverbialbunny6y ago

It could be trending away from that, but historically https://www.ycombinator.com/ is the center of bay area startup culture, and then those startups grew into bay area tech culture as a whole.

Ycombinator comes from Stanford which centers around creating CEOs, creating most of the companies in the bay area. Most non-yc bay area companies still have Stanford at its roots. I don't have a direct data point, but almost every company I've interviewed for in the last 10 years and have worked with, their CEO or CTO or some other c-suite "club" is strongly tied to Stanford and from that directly or indirectly tied to YC.

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proverbialbunny6y ago

It could be trending away from that, but historically https://www.ycombinator.com/ is the center of bay area startup culture, and then those startups grew into bay area tech culture as a whole.

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