Comment by dsacco

I think the fact that they're phenomenal is pretty clear, but I think a more important question is how reliable the returns are. They might be reliable, but that doesn't seem obvious to me from the comments in this thread, and it's still not clear to me that YC is capable of catapulting an arbitrary company in their set to wild success ("kingmaking") or that they're capable of repeating those successes over the long term.