I guess I’ve been out of YC a long time but I have a really hard time believing they are torpedoing investments in any company that competes with one of theirs, both because they wouldn’t want to and because they couldn’t. It’d make a lot more sense for them to just invest in potential disruptors, and in fact they do that all the time.

This sounds like all the same shit I (and most founders) went through even when there was little to no competition.

I can totally see that somebody could easily misinterpret the craziness that is raising money, an endeavor I can only liken to online dating. I’d need some pretty compelling evidence of this sort of collusion and there’s nothing given.

Also I haven’t talked to Patrick in a long time but he always seemed like a really good dude and I can’t imagine he’s doing that either.