YC advises founders to ‘plan for the worst’ amid market teardown

Don’t be so hard on yourself.

On the bright side, if you had gotten funding, today you'd be A) working insane hours, and B) staring down the barrel of a meltdown that could easily kill your company.

But I get it. Five few years ago, a woman friend and I were seated at a dinner with a VC who said her firm funded companies that were 51% woman-owned. To this day, that friend and I joke about what would have happened if she had just blurted out: "The two of us are starting a company actually! it'll be, uh, uh, Uber for dogs!?"

Take it easy. Easy come, easy go. Focus on things that actually matter. Life is not short. Just don't waste it.

I knew ppl who got funded and as part of the deal, pocketed a few $ million, no strings attached (I guess that's how much leverage startups had in getting funding). It really makes me angry because even if there's a downturn, they aren't negatively impacted. They made their $$$, and lost their investors money.