It's interesting how pretty much everyone I ask about W13 has a different set of favorite startups, and the top one on one person's assessment can be the bottom on someone else's. That means any of the rankings really say more about the evaluator and his/her metrics vs. the startups themselves.
This really wasn't the case with previous batches, or most other groups of startups.
We noticed that, and it's actually an encouraging sign. If YC reached the limit case where we had all the best new startups, that's what it would feel like: there would be so many good ones that it would be hard to pick the best.
This really wasn't the case with previous batches, or most other groups of startups.