Founders

Welcome to @garrytan, CEO of Y Combinator! 

He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)

do you ever consider Nevada as a testbed for what you want in San Francisco? do you see improving other metropolises as worthwhile for pushing San Francisco improvement?

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I think I am scared off from the idea of building a new ecosystem. I was so sad to read the recent new biographies on Tony Hsieh for instance. 

At YC we have discovered that the Bay Area is really something else. By the numbers it is the single biggest thing you can do to improve your chance of being successful.

I think agglomeration effects of cities are real and chance encounters and ease of access to people greatly increases chance of success. Startups are pass fail. If you don’t do all the most important things to increase your chance of success, chances are zero you do the second and third order things too.

yeah, I remember the news about Tony, seems like he was a positive influence & needed more of the same. 

what's the compromise of the Bay Area for misfits? how do we cooperate from a distance, or is there a hard line in the sand that the only common ground that matters is colocated?