A lot of strings attached among other being able to give up your life for 3 months. And a expectation and push to 100x. And a lot of others.
YC is simply not shaped for the Mittelstands and honestly really not compelling. At all.
YC is simply not shaped for the Mittelstands and honestly really not compelling. At all.
As you are pointing out, the risk of being a founder is just not worth it for you or most people, financially or socially or personally. It rarely makes sense even if you are already wealthy or privileged: even given the advantages you have correctly identified, the expected outcome is failure. Without those advantages the rewards for the risks are even worse. Calculate the median return[1][2][3] implied for the majority of ycombinator founders and it is approximately zero.
Selection bias is a bitch.
[1] https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-600b-of-y-combinator-start... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me... [3] https://80000hours.org/2014/05/how-much-do-y-combinator-foun...