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Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on private markets, ZIRP impact, future of Amazon | E1706

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The Conflicts Paradoxically Associated With YC

I've had to really work on this because no matter what you tell founders, they will believe they should be the exception. And so what we said was, Hey, when you graduate from the accelerator, we will likely do half the round. We'll let you know. And if they're growing and they have a lead and somebody else prices it, we'll participate. I would say maybe four or five out of each seven graduates. We participate in the round. But it is hard because people believe growth is they want to start our competition. They edit five employees. Not the growth we're talking about. So we've been more specific. Can you send us these five numbers for every

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