Until last year, I kept my mouth shut and just focused on building. But then I kept noticing a clear pattern that was too hard to ignore. It didn’t matter how talented builder you are or how much grit you have, it mattered way more what brand names you had.
I then started speaking out and I keep getting messages like this from so many people.
Keep rejecting real builders like me, keep funding kids with brand names who don’t know how to do laundry and more and more people like me will stop applying.
Sooner or later, we will build the next YC, a place where you are not judged by which school you went to and which company you worked at, but by how much real grit, perseverance, and inner motivation you have.