Silicon Valley is dominated by a few big tech companies that hire tens of thousands of employees they don&#x27;t really need, in large part just to keep them out of the hands of a competitor.<p>With Alphabet, Inc., Google is in the process of decentralizing itself into a version of YC. They&#x27;re essentially VCs now. At some point someone (maybe Alphabet) is going copy the YC model effectively and scale it up to tens of thousands of startups. It&#x27;s just too damn profitable and efficient to not become the standard way Silicon Valley works.<p>It would be neat if in a few years all the big tech companies are basically YC alternatives and most people work for a small startup that actually <i>makes</i> something.