You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
80% of drivers think they are a better than average drivers... I’m talking to everyone, not YC cream of the crop. Even then, what is YC’s success rate? Huge respect for what you’ve built, but I assume failure rate is very high even at the top.
Talking to everyone, though, is not the same as talking to the median person. The advice to the median person should definitely be: do not start a startup. But advice to everyone should be: few are suited for it, but for those who are, the expected value is high.
I think everyone and even median person should try at least once. How otherwise they would know?
@paulg that is very good explanation of ergodicity 
and well said
This is an edge case that's often a success from the founders' POV but a failure from the investors'. When it happens, many VCs feel they ought to extract something, e.g. sell the co to another portfolio co. I encourage founders to resist this.
What % of the startups you fund fail (acquihire/shut-down/cant pay back investment) at YC? Even the cream of the crop founders selected by YC fail at a very high rate.
Sure, but a cream of the crop founder's success rate might be 15% and they can try multiple times.
This goes back to the fact that MOST people think they are better than average. "It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent." –Charlie Munger
Isn’t that a feature, not a bug? People thinking they are better than they are is the only way they actually build companies that sane people would see as insane. And it doesn’t always work. But many “failures” (like myself) just get back to work on the next thing.
May I ask how I can know if I belong to the group that are suited for it, before actually doing it?
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
