An Evening with Y-Combinator's Michael Seibel

Absolutely love michael. What a great guy!

I fkn love Michael

Thank you for sharing this. I agree with Michael about working with good and brilliant people should be the main goal to pursue.

i have no idea! next question ... i think the guy was not listening // please catch up

Highly respect Michael and appreciate sharing the jewels in these videos. But have to disagree with this "if you have developers building your product in India, we don't invest in you". This is going to be YC's Achilles heel if it's true. It used to be that coding was the most valuable, hardest to find skill around.. 10 years ago! But in today's world, Product is the top skill, Marketing and customer acquisition is up there with it. Coding is a commodity, unless you're a first time entrepreneur just our of college or dropping out. If you have any experience as a Product manager, and have "actually" built products using distributed teams before, coding is still very important, of course, but it's NOT your top challenge. Sourcing and putting distributed, global teams together to build is the most valuable skill and if you are or find someone who can do that AND design and architect a product while acquiring customers you have the winning formula. Of course, talk is cheap so there has to be substance behind any claim.

Why is everyone so obsessed with their race and gender?

70% of silicon valley's brains are from India and he says people from India can't code. Such ignorance, much wow.