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> Though we've traditionally focused on helping very early-stage companies, our successful companies have asked for help on topics like scaling operations, managing hypergrowth, building out management teams, etc.<p>This makes a lot of sense given the blog post a few days ago from `sama [0] — the evolution of YC from incubator to "meta-company" or network facilitator could only be helped by having more late-stage expertise on hand, so nodes don't drop out of the network.<p>[0] <a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/why-silicon-valley-works" rel="nofollow">http://blog.samaltman.com/why-silicon-valley-works</a>