YC, You Can't Even Start Without Raising a Pre-Seed Round

A lot of the content marketing we get from the venture capital industry is to convince people they need it and want it immediately. And again, I hope people never hear that from YC or they don't get that from us. We say the opposite. If your idea for how you start a startup is to first create a pitch deck and go pitch VCs, you're setting yourself up to get taken advantage of who by people who are gonna have 20 different ways to rip you off. Versus if you do something cool and you're gonna have a lot more leverage, right? Anyways, this was an amazing batch and I don't want YC to take too much credit here. The