"Or maybe we're hairball paste you feed a cat so a hairball won't get stuck. They're cats and the hairballs are all the little problems that crop up. But you've got to lick yourself anyway, right? Just don't choke. Programmers are a lot like cats, actually. We're like magical cat-herding Unicorns."

Wow, over 400 applications to yield 20 admissions. That's more selective than Harvard or MIT, who each admit ~10% of applications.

The cost to apply is much lower to YC. I suspect they get a lot of bozos.