YC China was a bet at doing something different. With that gone—and idk if it should have stayed or gone.. sometimes experiments fail—what is YCs plan?
Invite 200, 300, 500, 20,000 companies to SF? maybe it is the best option, but also maybe not the best thing to do. YC Seems stuck in an innovator's dilemma. Reminds me of Apple under Tim Cook. Keeping a good thing going, but nothing innovative.
* Supporting more hardware specific companies.
* Supporting more biomed device tech companies.
* Scaling online with startup school.
* Trying to scale the number of companies who get accepted into the program.
There is still a lot to figure out in the 'nurture small/young companies' space. That said, each country has its own unique challenges.
How could you possibly know it's only 50%? Please, HN, stop with all of the ridiculous guessing of motives with nothing to back it up.
Again, there's no way you can know that and you're making complete assumptions.