Long-time MicroConf attendee (and one time sponsor). Still, YC has an outsized influence on young people and I'd like to see the bootstrap model expressed as a more obtainable path to one's first million.

- patio11 aka Patrick McKenzie (https://twitter.com/patio11, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11, and https://www.kalzumeus.com)