Y Combinator Bet It All on AI. Now Founders Are Wondering If They Should Bet on YC

Once a must-have for any resume, Y Combinator now faces fierce competition, an open revolt at Stanford, and a startup scandal it can’t quite shake.

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On Y Combinator Demo Day, the three-mile journey from downtown San Francisco to the Dogpatch headquarters of the startup accelerator seems to double as a tour through YC’s domination of the startup scene.

Get up early, and you can catch a 7:30 a.m. ride on a bright orange bus plastered with the logo for Corgi Insurance, an alum of YC’s summer 2024 batch. (Orange is also YC’s signature color.) “Ubers are expensive,” says Nico Laqua, Corgi’s 26-year-old founder, as to why his company is giving founders a free ride to Demo Day, where the winter batch of almost 200 startups........

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