Hacker News Reader

"I totally understand the business reasons for their decision, but some days it feels like the game is rigged against bootstrapped companies."

I guess they grew to trust each other and the business system they developed. In order to be trusted, outsiders require real evaluation, which is expensive and thus - avoided most of the time. That is something that occurs in other domains of activity too.

View on HN

A friend described it to me as AWS wanting to get a few multi-million dollar per year accounts. By offering tiny amounts of credit to every YC startup, they know they have a good shot of getting a couple of those each year.

Which totally makes sense.

Especially for AWS, it could be old fashioned customer segmentation. They want to give free credits to companies that are going to have increasing infrastructure costs and money to throw at it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com