michaelheinrich

I agree that there is a trend to accept some more later stage companies. While there are a few post seed companies, there are many in the batch that just started their company right before yc or a few months before, so that is still a theme. With a 100 companies every batch it is easier to have many more diverse companies represented.

I can say that it wasn't an easy decision, I had to mull it over a few times and talk to various advisors, alumni, and friends about it. In the end it was very worth it!

Hey guys, I founded ohmygreen and here are my reasons for attending: 1) community of other high quality founders which leads to helpful friendships and discoveries of new ways of thought 2) yc is a forcing function, e.g., experimentation with new business models, focus on growth, etc 3) it makes everything easier (hiring, fundraising, etc) => every little edge helps 4) long term investment: who knows, I might start another company with someone I met at yc or invest in yc companies 5) additional customers we might not have had access to (easy to reach out to any yc company) 6) while we're not quite seed stage, we bootstrapped a couple years and I wanted to scale things faster in order to bring healthy and blissful living to more people

We were at a stage where yc wasn't necessary but a very helpful catalyst. I hope this is helpful, happy to answer more.

Interesting points raised. I see robots overtaking most manufacturing eventually as well as they have a much lower margin of error, never need to sleep (with the occasional maintenance), are more precise and can perform repetitive tasks more quickly. I see human jobs moving more into the management of systems / engineering aspects. Unless one is dealing with luxury goods (e.g., high end watches) where I think value will still be placed on a human operator.