<i>&quot;Where are you seeing discomfort in this thread?&quot;</i><p>In every one of your responses, for starters. ;-)<p><i>&quot;Others may try to replicate this and start their own cargo cult, which has applied its own secret definition of those words, in order to work the magic sauce.&quot;</i><p>As I mentioned I would like for more investors to try to behave like YC, even if they&#x27;re unsuccessful in the attempt.<p>And, there are already many investors cargo culting the YC process. I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a bad thing; they aren&#x27;t as successful (I guess TechStars is the nearest analog so far), but they&#x27;re trying to replicate the winning formula. They may fail in a variety of interesting ways, because it <i>is</i> cargo culting in many cases, but by trying to do things more like YC they&#x27;re likely making the world a little better for early stage founders.<p><i>&quot;What is so hard about the concept&#x2F;metric being applied here that it can&#x27;t be put into words?&quot;</i><p>Again, I would guess pg doesn&#x27;t understand it, and so can&#x27;t quantify it, but trusts that Jessica&#x27;s correct more often than not. It doesn&#x27;t seem like pg was even trying to show everyone how to do what Jessica does, just to clarify that she does many things within YC and that she has often been forgotten in the telling of the YC story; explaining that does not require him to explain how it works.