My original comment was really meant playfully, I don't think there's any reason to doubt your good intentions.
Like many jokes though, there was a grain of earnest feeling there. To be totally pretentious about it, take Koan 16 from The Gateless Gate
> Ummon asked: "The world is such a wide world, why do you answer a bell and don ceremonial robes?"
If I could rephrase that to "tech startups are so hot, how come you moderate/lurk a forum and just talk about entrepreneurship instead of doing it?", I like to ask it you Dan, or anyone else who thinks YC is cool but isn't quitting their day job to pitch their moonshot.
Like many jokes though, there was a grain of earnest feeling there. To be totally pretentious about it, take Koan 16 from The Gateless Gate
> Ummon asked: "The world is such a wide world, why do you answer a bell and don ceremonial robes?"
If I could rephrase that to "tech startups are so hot, how come you moderate/lurk a forum and just talk about entrepreneurship instead of doing it?", I like to ask it you Dan, or anyone else who thinks YC is cool but isn't quitting their day job to pitch their moonshot.