Even most YC startups fail, despite of all the support.

This is problematic because it discourages founders on the margin from launching a startup.

More so in a downturn after a period of exuberance in the tech and crypto markets.

Increasing founder success rate at every stage of the startup journey-- idea, build, launch, grow, pmf--would have the double impact of more successful startups encouraging more new founders.

Seems to me we need a way for founders to reward the world for helping them grow at every stage-- incentivizing early believers, collaborators, adopters, growth hackers, etc-- the way YC is incentivized to help their founders-- because they share in the upside.

These don't have to be securities, or even onchain assets, rather they can start as closed-loop reward coins that can be evolved to confer ownership and/or be onchain.

To see an example of how this might work, please check out https://www.producthunt.com/posts/freemance.