Nepotism at Y Combinator

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The actual title of the article is "This MMO that promised an 'infinite open world' has become a giant fiasco." It's about the apparent failure of an MMORPG called Dream World, and nepotism at YCombinator is only mentioned as one of many allegations related to that.

Please don't lead readers by editorializing titles. We're capable of reading and drawing our own conclusions.

Nobody noticed it with the non-editorialized title, so I resubmitted with the title tailored to the audience here, and it appears to have been somewhat more effective.

Big if true and very surprising. I had high hopes for YC but it appears that if you know someone there with a Konami code, they can activate cheat mode on your behalf.

Perhaps you can activate access to the super secret bookface VIP club. Who knows.

Regardless, "It's not about what you know, but who you know." [0] and it applies here as well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27866437

Happened before, but at least it was for Joe Montana's son.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220218

Not sure who Garrison Bellack and Zachary Kaplan are, but supporting their venture makes YC either stupid or evil. I hope it's stupid.

Dispo at least suggests that it's carelessness.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/27/y-combinator-demo-day-disp...

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