I have been fascinated with YC since the beginning and twice tracked batches for stories--W07 for Newsweek and W11 for Wired. So it was great to return in the Sam Altman (and large cast of others) era to see how YC has basically made the pivot from its focus on mainly helping the founders in its batches to the broader mission of spreading startups (and the mentality of founders) throughout the world. When I spoke to PG from his happy UK exile, he reminded me that he was thinking this from the start. It was also great spending time with Sam and many other partners, some of whom I've known for years. Thanks to Kat, Sharon, and all the other YC folks and founders who helped me on this.
Looking forward to reading it, however your first sentence threw me off:
"If the casting director of the TV show “Silicon Valley” were asked to produce a canonical example of an applicant to Y Combinator’s incubator program, she may well have come up with the guy strolling to the front of in a basement auditorium at Stanford on a mid-April day this year."
Am I reading that correctly or was it just an editorial misplacement?
