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- Y Combinator was started partly for the fun of working together again, like a band reunion.
- Unlike Viaweb, which was started explicitly to make money, YC is not primarily for profit.
- The real reason is that YC is a great hack: applying a small force at the right place can create many new startups.
- The motivation is the same as a hacker tweaking a complex system to make it more efficient; the system is the world's economy.