Oh no you have to do something new to get rich.<p>There&#x27;s still plenty of money, talent, and success out there for new, good ideas. It being hard to fund the same old thing again and again is more of a feature than a bug.<p>And the argument about the last few YC classes - it takes years to see who the stars are. I remember seeing one of the founders of Stripe speak when they were in YC. It wasn&#x27;t clear they were going anywhere. What they were doing was cool, but there wasn&#x27;t exactly lots of hype about it. Their success only looks obvious in hindsight.