YC vs Product at FinTech

Soon to graduate college - have offers from a top crypto fintech in a product role, a summer trading internship at a top buyside fund, and got accepted into an elite army/navy reserve programme.

Recently also got accepted into YC as a solo, no idea candidate.

Long term my goal is to start something; I will take the product role no matter what happens during the internship. However, taking the accelerator will mean leaving the reserves, losing potential internship money (which is a lot - I don’t come from money) and losing any semblance of a personal life for the life of my startup.

I am not cracked and don’t have any real edge in a particular area - wondering what you guys would take in my situation and why

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I think if you are not delusional about the success of your product just remove YC as an option. Being a start up founder is super tough and a lot of the times everyone is going to tell you they don’t know how this will even work. If you are not always the one guy in the room to believe I your own product then it is almost guaranteed that at some point your idea will have 0 support. So do something else imo. Not to be disrespectful but like you said it is a grind and if you aren’t 1000% sold on your idea I can’t really see it being worth it

 

Would you say this still applies even if I was accepted without a product?

 

Lmao this is the same almost identical situation as me. Decided to do the trading in the summer and if don’t convert just join the crypto product

 

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