I am assuming YC will be lobbying on their own interests, which, at least for typical VCs is getting some of their small companies to go big, rather than promoting success among all their companies. They probably won't be lobbying for the companies that do not get/take VC funding, which are the less capatilized ones that probably need more representation. And, their interests with go big or go bust doesn't always align with the funded companies' interests, since optimizing for their portfolio of many is different from optimizing for the founders' portifolio of one.

It is interesting that you have current YC head lobbying for small and open, while previous lobbies for large and private and is a big driver in why the government wants to regulate so much already.

Thought experiment, if YC had not allowed for or jump started OpenAI would they even have to be lobbying now for openness and “little tech” (at least for AI side of things)?

Is this the appropriate saying now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard

Somewhat with you on this one, I assumed the title was YC (being big tech) were upping their lobbying game - it was after reading it that I came to your point of view.

Growth starts little.