[nthacker]

At first glance this sounds like genius but its not

YC or any successful VC doesn't fund ideas. There is something else the founders have figured out which is key to success and funding. This could be a distribution trick, a key insight, a user growth metric.

Its not hard to imagine YC or a VC coming across the same idea pitched by different founders. Why they picked the team they picked cannot be obvious from trawling the startup directory, that insight is hidden, its literally a secret that should be guarded

[asdadsdad]

I see Peter Thiel over here =) great insights.

[grantsch]

Only the ones that will succeed (very few, maybe 1%?) have a secret tho

[nthacker]

No. The secret is the gamble