We knew that it was grueling. You need something to drive you through all those obstacles and honestly being dutiful is not enough. The obstacles are too fearsome for mere dutifulness to do it. So there’s got to be something driving you and you call it ambition.
With startups, there’s no easy majors. It’s really rough if you’re not very very hardworking and clever and determined. These people trying to get yc trying to do yc as a credential, they had no idea what they were asking for.
...if you want to seem cool, like starting a startup, is just about the least efficient way to do it. It’s brutally hard. And you won’t seem cool for years. Years of brutal hardness before anyone will think you’re cool.