Ok...we can keep going. If you would have said "YC is like the Marines of startup incubators" and left it at that, it would have been fine. But you didn't say that. You went a lot further than that. You made very specific comparisons including a condescending remark that you and your peers aren't here to just pay their college tuition, etc...
I am quite sure that your intentions were not malicious, but the response to your post is the response to your post.
Did YC teach you and your "best of the best" peers to know when you made a mistake, how to fix it and then move on? If so, now would be a good time to put it into practice, imo.
I see...this is all a misunderstanding based on you not having read this correctly.
"...it could easily be the Air Force, or the Navy, right? Wrong. YC is the Marine Corp...[like the Marines] You are not serving next to people who are in it for the college money."
Yet again a metaphor intended to describe similarities...a compliment to the Marines, specifically. I have met plenty of people who went into other branches of the military just to earn money for college. Nobody goes into the Marines just to earn money for college. I can't see how you turned that into an issue.
It's really unfortunate. I have had the great opportunity to go through a world class program designed to turn the most dedicated professionals from a field into some of its strongest leaders. It is not for the weak-willed and my post was intended to convey that to people interested in the program. I thought I could relay that message by comparing it to a world class training organization of another kind, in which only people of the highest dedication should consider joining. It was my way of saying that what PG has put together is the best of the best, just like the US Marines. I am sorry that you had to nitpick it and turn it into a semantic argument. I'm happy to move on, but my compliment to the Marines and to the program PG has put together is nothing to apologize for.
I am quite sure that your intentions were not malicious, but the response to your post is the response to your post.
Did YC teach you and your "best of the best" peers to know when you made a mistake, how to fix it and then move on? If so, now would be a good time to put it into practice, imo.