It's harder to get into YC if you’ve been through another accelerator
This still confuses me.<p>The expectation that a company should be "accelerated" reflects more on the accelerator than the company.<p>(A cynical person would say that this philosophy is merely to incentivize companies to apply to only YC. I don't think that's the case and take Sam at his word.)<p>But if the company is indeed the independent variable, then e.g. AirBnb and Dropbox succeeded because they were great companies, not because they went through YC.<p>How do you claim on one hand that YC can materially improve your company, and on the other judge the <i>company</i> for not being improved after going through another accelerator?