Is Y Combinator worth the money? A second perspective (S21 batch)

Yesterday, I read an article by Oleksii Sidorov where he shared his experience on being incubated by YC – batch of W22. Here's the link to the original substack: https://acecreamu.substack.com/p/is-y-combinator-worth-the-m...

I work for a YC (S21) company, as an employee and not as a founder, so I immediately sent the article to one of the cofounders to gauge his thoughts on Oleksii's experience, purely out of my own curiosity.

Being the kind of mentor that he is, Colton sent me a highly detailed, point-by-point analysis on everything Oleksii touched on.

I loved it and told him that instead of having his perspective exist merely in our private discord DM, he should put it in a twitter thread and share it publicly, since a second perspective is always useful, thus this post.

Enjoy!