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Where did you pluck the 95% figure from? 50% of yc startups are still going. http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-stats http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-stats
by mattmanser 11y ago
Where did you pluck the 95% figure from?
50% of yc startups are still going.
http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-stats http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-stats
- pswilson14 11y agoI guess I was looking at some very out-of-date or possibly incorrect figures. My mistake. Updated my comment accordingly.
- seiji 11y ago95% could be accurate. I'd consider every "acqi-hire" an overt failure. Your business failed, but you personally got to fail upwards. acqui-hires are generally VC-engineere soft landings (everybody has friends they can ask for $50 million in a pinch, right?). Just because money changes hands in the end doesn't make it a success. You fail upwards until you become a creature of pure thought leadership (i.e. a VC whose only job is to 'have an opinion' on stuff and can never be proven wrong because, hey, it's all an opinion or luck or the market or some unforeseeable outside force you failed to consider when failures continually happen).
- mattmanser 11y agoYou didn't read those figures did you.