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YC is at the intersection of venture funding and mass production. We realized this a few weeks after starting it, but it was not our original motivation. Originally we just wanted to make it easier to start startups.
One of the first things I do in office hours with a startup is try to figure out what basic forces the startup is or could be at the intersection of. It's a useful thing to know, as well as a good first approximation of potential.
Founders who haven't consciously thought about their company in these terms are often surprised and delighted to hear they're doing something more important than they realized, and leave feeling full of ambition. But this is not mere pep talk. It's the truth.
1) Man , 2) Machine ,3) Method , 4) Material, 5) Measurement , 6) Environment
This is a great mental model to evaluate a startup. Other than the internet and social relationships, what are the other common forces one can use to evaluate?
Could AWS be intersection of cloud and internet?
Dreaming for an office hours like this 
True, How do we schedule an office hour with you? I would love to...
I am reminded of a post about VCs who do just that, but with a cheatsheet—backing only those ventures that satisfy any of the base 7 Deadly Sins! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins … (To be clear, I didn't pick a sin & *then* set out to build a http://Jodi365.com .)
Paul, do you still hold office hours with YC start ups?
Yes, occasionally.
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