Getting people hired is also a goal as they rely on it to stay afloat:

> How can you afford to make RC free?

> RC has a built in recruiting agency. Companies pay to hire RC alumni.

The paradox of networking events is nobody who attends "networking events" is worth networking with.

It's weird to say that about a YCombinator-affiliated event on a YCombinator forum. I'm not especially fond of YC but there's pretty clearly potential to make valuable connections in this sphere.

Recurse Center is only YC-affiliated in the sense that the founders did YC (S10). It's not YC sponsored or endorsed as far as I could find.

It doesn't really attract the YC kind of people either.