Thanks for sharing how you took it. I'm not sure how helpful that it for me here, as my goal is simply to express exactly how I feel, but it does tell me where you're at.

Here's where I'm at: I applied to YC 15 times, never once got a call back. I saw products I applied with later on become the pivot-intos for other teams. I don't think you captured the emotions that are there for me with the words you chose. I'd pick: angry, disappointed, unhappy with this kind of shady behavior.

The words you pick are more negative, and frame me as an angry, immature loser. If you're trying to be helpful, don't try to humilitate the person you're trying to help. I'm not immature and bitter, I'm facing that situation I described and having normal emotions about it, and expressing how I feel.

If you have a problem with that, where you feel you need to humiliate the person who expresses that, maybe that's something you need to examine in yourself.

Also - probably not the "look I want"? "The look" to get funding? It's an attitude/or appropach that sounds so fake, like bullshist. I'm much more into something that's real.

But anyway all of this, the experience, the emotions, even this interaction here, is singal and information to me, about what YC is and about what people think about it. "The Look" to get funding? Okay.