Ask PG: Have you ever funded startups that eventually compete with each other?
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Stripe, Balanced and WePay are all moving in the same direction. Also WePay and Crowdtilt were doing similar things at the start but WePay seems to be focused on their API.
Interesting. How would communicating and offering advice to each competing portfolio companies be, with YC having privileged knowledge for all of them.
In a scenario where one company might book an office hour to talk about competition from another competing YC company, I wonder how PG manage what information to release, what advice to give.
In a scenario where one company might book an office hour to talk about competition from another competing YC company, I wonder how PG manage what information to release, what advice to give.
Do you interfere in such cases? How do you deal with that?