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Y Combinator’s Identity Crisis: Growth or Decline? Y Combinator, the famed Silicon Valley accelerator behind Airbnb, Stripe, and Doordash, is facing scrutiny as it expands. Once exclusive, YC now runs more frequent and larger startup batches, rais

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Even with bigger batches, YC is still producing unicorns at a crazy rate. No other accelerator has its network, access, or credibility. The best founders will always apply, and investors will always watch. If you get into YC, you’ve already won.

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