I feel like you're going to run into a bit of a selection bias on Hacker News...
I know many founders of YC companies that ended up not being successful but I've never heard serious complaints from any of them. Some of them have even gone on to do YC again.
I know many founders of YC companies that ended up not being successful but I've never heard serious complaints from any of them. Some of them have even gone on to do YC again.