It's harder to get into YC if you’ve been through another accelerator
This still confuses me.The expectation that a company should be "accelerated" reflects more on the accelerator than the company.(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.)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.How do you claim on one hand that YC can materially improve your company, and on the other judge the company for not being improved after going through another accelerator?