How to get into Y Combinator
<i>We want to fund founders that are going to be successful.</i><p>I love Y Combinator, and I'm proud to be a part of it, but I've been thinking a lot about this recently...<p>Many many organizations exist, whose purpose is to filter people who <i>want</i> to do something down to the few percent who are most likely to succeed at that thing, and then to help those people get even <i>more</i> likely to succeed at it.<p>But that seems like it's actually a kind of operating on diminishing returns.  If I take someone who is 90% likely to succeed at something, and help them to become 95%, is that really a better use of my time than if I take someone who is at 50%, and bump them up to 80%?<p>From an investment point of view of course I can see why people would do the former.  But I wonder if the world might be a better place if we could figure out how to do the latter?