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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I gave you a selection of top 50 startups out of thousands funded by YC. You're giving me one anecdote.
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.
YC == high impact? Have you seen the cohorts of startups YC has funded?
Some YC startups actually started that way.
Has YCombinator funded any legitimately profitable companies?
It's impressive how many of those are YC startups
pg, can you express percentages of yc startups that went through this?
What percentage of YC companies fail to take off?
Is there a list of failed/doomed YC startups? Maybe with some analysis?
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