When we first started, the defining quality of incubators, as established in the 1990s, was that the startups worked out of the investors' space. Since we considered that a mistake and made a point of avoiding it, we didn't think of ourselves as an incubator. But the weird thing is that now YC is becoming more established, the meaning of the word "incubator" is changing to something closer to us.
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When we first started, the defining quality of incubators, as established in the 1990s, was that the startups worked out of the investors' space. Since we considered that a mistake and made a point of avoiding it, we didn't think of ourselves as an incubator. But the weird thing is that now YC is becoming more established, the meaning of the word "incubator" is changing to something closer to us.