So this announcement got me thinking and while this is slightly off topic and it may seem like a dumb question but I&#x27;m going to ask it anyway because I&#x27;m curious: where does YC get the money to do everything it does (seed and later stage investment, research, running hacker news, employees, startup school, etc)?<p>I mean I know roughly how it works from the standpoint of taking investment money and funneling it into companies but unless I missed it I have yet to see them &quot;cash out&quot; on any existing investments so are they bringing in any money from those investments or is it just more and more funding to do further investments that powers everything?