Whenever someone gives you free advice (i.e. you don't directly pay them cash) try to understand the motivation to give you free advice. That should give you an idea of whether the advice is valuable or not.
This is actually reasonable advice. For clarity: our motivation is because we want to see more successful startups in the world. We also believe and hope that some of those startups will be funded by YC.
Would you agree or disagree that YC looks for high value potential more than just a successful start up? I'm thinking of the top post here and that's prompting my question.
Whenever someone gives you free advice (i.e. you don't directly pay them cash) try to understand the motivation to give you free advice. That should give you an idea of whether the advice is valuable or not.