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we're a profitable company with paying users and an experienced team and we got no-sir'ed and I don't know why.

i don't know who they decided to interview over us, but i can't imagine that every single company is actually generating a profit like we are. feel free to get in touch and ask me anything.

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The relationship has to work both ways - maybe they felt that you are at a place that is beyond were YC could be of extreme value? If you are making a profit, you've got some options that many startups don't have.

YC doesn't care about how much revenue you are bringing in, they care about how big you can get. They probably didn't feel the idea could get that big (scale)... from their perspective.

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