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You're measuring the wrong thing. I'm talking about YC, not the companies of these specific YC partners. YC has done well through the transition. The best me
by rdl 11y ago
You're measuring the wrong thing.
I'm talking about YC, not the companies of these specific YC partners. YC has done well through the transition. The best measurement for that is not "have YC partners exited their own firms at huge profits", but "do they provide meaningful help to people joining YC, do they bring great companies into YC, and do they make the tech industry overall better". I think the answer to that is pretty clearly yes.
YC open office hours, the YC fellowship (which hugely benefits remote people), expanding the partnership, expanding YC into new areas (hardware, bio, real science), etc. are more relevant than that Loopt was 3 years too early :)
Obviously it's still a work in progress. Would be interesting to look back in 10y.
- austenallred 11y agoAlso, I'll just jump in here and say that not declaring any of Airbnb, Pinterest and 23andMe to be a success is farcical. You don't have to have exited to have a successful company.