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glenchao on March 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

How often does YC fund early stage companies that don't even have a functional prototype?

sama on March 20, 2015 [–]

Somewhat frequently, but we always ask why the company doesn't have a prototype.

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