In the last two months, as I applied to Y Combinator myself (now I know the hubris, hahahah!) and also applied to a few positions on the work for a startup page, I found myself wondering what kind of people Y Combinator actually accepts. This curiosity was particularly sparked after I had gone through a few rounds of these interviews and realized that every single founder who was interviewing me had graduated from a top school in the United States like MIT, Yale, Harvard, etc. I found myself wondering how many people that are accepted into Y Combinator actually come from top schools, and that was the kickoff of this whole dive into analyzing these companies and their founders. I've had an interesting journey personally into software development, as I started off my career as an adult as a professional photographer, mainly photographing music artists and shows, and slowly taught myself how to become a software developer. I literally dropped out of a liberal arts school, so my educational background left me particularly curious about this whole dynamic.