yc as a reflection.

the y. no, not the ymca -- the y combinator. from brian chesky to brian armstrong (and, maybe one day, bryan hong), the y has been synonymous to startups, silicon valley, and entrepreneurship. and this is what i wanted to talk about in this blog today. like many people, it's been my dream for quite a while to launch my own startup and disrupt and revolutionize an industry; unlike others, my main motivation isn't money. entrepreneurship to me is a form of creation; a creative and artistic value to society. i was never good at art; i had a couple years where i was semi-decent at the violin but nothing too special. which is strange, considering that one of my biggest strengths is my creativity. and ultimately, this is what entrepreneurship is for me; a creative outlet for me to solve problems. many people ask me if i enjoy coding, and the truth is, not enough for how much i code. and this is what's so surprising for people. i can code for 8, 9 hours a day without a break, but i do it not because i love communicating with my laptop, but rather, because coding is just another tool for creation. for every tech entrepreneur, there's two types of problems that we are constantly having to solve: the macro problem and the micro problem. for example, the current app that I've been playing around with is a housekeeping tool for hotels (macro issue), but on the micro side, i'm solving problems in my code and implementation (syntax errors or my inability to implement binary trees correctly), and i think i personally enjoy solving the macro issue a lot more than the micro issue. that brings me back to yc. yc really emphasizes the importance of technical founders because these are the people who are solving both the macro and micro issues in their startup. now don't get me wrong, i'm majoring in cs and math so technically im technical. but there's a whole different breed of technical when we talk about computer scientists who LOVE coding just to code. (i love coding to solve problems) and in a sense, this is what entrepreneurship means to me. let's say that coding was never invented and instead of tech saas startups, our only medium to solving problems was manual labor: instead of google having access to the internet (internet was never invented in this world), we just had a bunch of really smart people answer our questions. i think for a decently sized population of people, this change would make them not want to pursue entrepreneurship anymore (they love CODING to code), but for me, it doesn't matter if it's manual labor, coding, math, chemistry equations -- i will always love entrepreneurship, no matter the medium, because i love solving problems.