True, but they&#x27;re not marketing to them. They&#x27;re marketing to rich people, by using HN, the tech sphere, etc. If YC was interested in poor people they wouldn&#x27;t do marketing the way they do.<p>They also gear the application to rich people by making it just a form on the Internet. That&#x27;s perfect for people who have enough privilege to figure out what an application should look like but it doesn&#x27;t work for people who don&#x27;t yet know what to say to someone like YC, or that YC even exists. That suggests YC only wants applicants who are already connected to their social network, or have close cultural ties to the YC community.<p>Of course a poor person could technically apply. YC just isn&#x27;t doing the work to make that probable. It&#x27;s the difference between mechanical possibility and psycho-social possibility.