Ok well, frankly, I wrote this because I didn’t quite get the author’s point. To begin, military officers do not choose their team. I elaborated on the situation in order to highlight the situational differences between choosing startup cofounders and being put on a military team. I may have put this in an idealized form, but I think it is a bit closer to reality than most civilians would expect, at least in combat operations.

P.S. I should also mention that I have zero clue what YC is like in present or past form, so I couldn’t competently draw a direct comparison, instead inviting the reader to make their own.