You&#x27;re painting with too broad a brush. There are kinds of founders who are in conflict with their investors (first-timers without significant savings), but there are plenty who have the same risk tolerance as their investors do.<p>A fairer complaint to make is about the tension between investors&#x2F;founders and employees.<p>This is all neither here nor there, though, because whatever kind of founder you are, you are <i>vastly</i> more likely to get external financing in the post-YC era than you were before YC happen. YC funds all kinds of companies that aren&#x27;t immediately on a moonshot trajectory. VC firms as a rule don&#x27;t.<p>I am not a YC booster, but I&#x27;ve been in startups since &#x27;95, and there is just no comparison. YC has made things significantly better for founders everywhere.