YC Annual Letter 2017
Hi sama,I know you wrote that YC Research will likely not expand in the near future. If you do I think the most interesting topic would be the destruction of the journal industry and freeing information. At least in my opinion it would make a lot of sense for YC to try and free as much research as possible which entrepreneurs could build upon. I can only wonder how many more interesting startups we'd get if a random hacker in India or Ethiopia had access to the latest journals on medicine, biology etc.
That would take a lot of commitment and being in active position to some powerful interests. This should be attacked from a legal, political and technological angle.