Based on this and the biannual stories of how many great teams there wasn't room for, I wonder: how long until the YC partners aren't advisors so much as the deans and department heads of YC University?
I realize that's a hugely loaded question, just curious what people's thoughts are.
We wouldn't have to do anything like that till we had such a large number of partners that they had to be organized in some sort of structure. YC is intrinsically very parallelizable, so we probably have room to grow several x before we'd have that many.
A law (or other professional) firm might be a better analog for YC than a university - each partner may be responsible for one portion of the firm's portfolio and support resources may be shared while benefiting from economies of scale. As the firm adds to its portfolio additional partners may be recruited to maintain the ratio of projects to partners and by adding partners with expertise in different areas, the firm my diversify its business interests.
I couldn't follow your comment, so I tried to google what those acronyms meant. I couldn't find a reasonable answer, so in case you had a similar difficulty with my post, here are the expanded forms of SME and GM:
I realize that's a hugely loaded question, just curious what people's thoughts are.