Welcome to YC Arena , which is not a top secret fight club for Y Combinator founders, but a suite of games that give you a vague sense of what it’s like to be a partner at YC.

Created by a student in Berlin, YC Arena’s YC Partner Simulator game shows you a publicly available pitch video from a company that applied to YC, along with the year of their application. You click “accept” or “reject,” and then find out if you made the same choice as YC.

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It’s a lot harder than it looks. YC is estimated to accept around 1% of applicants , and at a certain point, some luck is required to really capture a partner’s eye — maybe your pitch is the first that a partner watched after a very rejuvenating coffee break, or maybe your company is the last video on the list, an

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