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YC is getting involved in some serious tech and markets. Long gone are the days of web apps. Deep insight, experience, and skill in today's heavyweight industries are what matter now. Really happy to see this change and very impressed with the first portion of this batch.

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What does YC bring to tech heavy startups except connections to funding ? because most of the risk there is technology risk , not market risk, and YC is no tech expert at those subjects.

Connections to funding and talents. It's not easy to find a group of tens of thousand engineers, and which has very high opinion of YC.

There is plenty of technology risk and market risk in hard-tech companies. A business with R&D cycles, long lead times, and heavy capex requirements is going to face a substantial amount of both types of risk.

Web apps and other software tech can scale really quickly. I'm not so sure fusion plants and fission batteries can scale as quickly.

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