YC Startup Success

Discussions focus on the success rates, notable alumni like Airbnb and Dropbox, failure percentages, and comparisons of Y Combinator-funded startups to other accelerators.

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hbrn Nov 30, 2024 View on HN

I gave you a selection of top 50 startups out of thousands funded by YC. You're giving me one anecdote.

earbitscom Mar 21, 2012 View on HN

Google and Facebook are two companies out of many thousands (if not millions) of startups. The odds of anybody that big coming out of anywhere are microscopic. That being said, Dropbox and AirBNB are massive and very young companies. Between those two and the 150+ startups funded in the past 18 months, saying there will be no world-changing startups out of YC is premature.

kyawzazaw Sep 24, 2023 View on HN

YC == high impact? Have you seen the cohorts of startups YC has funded?

sombremesa Dec 10, 2019 View on HN

Some YC startups actually started that way.

zackattack Jul 21, 2010 View on HN

Has YCombinator funded any legitimately profitable companies?

davidedicillo Nov 17, 2010 View on HN

It's impressive how many of those are YC startups

jayzalowitz Nov 26, 2012 View on HN

pg, can you express percentages of yc startups that went through this?

remote_phone Sep 5, 2022 View on HN

What percentage of YC companies fail to take off?

jnsaff2 Dec 10, 2012 View on HN

Is there a list of failed/doomed YC startups? Maybe with some analysis?

Animats Oct 22, 2017 View on HN

From the article:"We’re already seeing this. Consider Y Combinator, by all accounts the gold standard of startup accelerators, famously harder to get into than Harvard. Then consider its alumni. Five years ago, in 2012, its three poster children were clearly poised to dominate their markets and become huge companies: AirBnB, Dropbox, and Stripe. And so it came to pass.""Fast forward to today, and Y Combinator’s three poster children are… unchanged. In the last six