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I can't help but think as quantity has gone up, quality has flattened. I was just browsing a list of the last few classes and don't see a (m)any obvious winners
by pbreit 11y ago
I can't help but think as quantity has gone up, quality has flattened. I was just browsing a list of the last few classes and don't see a (m)any obvious winners. I know it takes awhile but you'd think a few would stick out.
- jpeg_hero 11y agoHey, what about Dropbox and Airbnb!?! :)
- justin 11y agoIt takes a long time to tell what companies break out, but we are pretty confident that quality has remained fixed or improved (on a % basis).
- BrooklynRage 11y agoJust out of curiosity, how does YC internally determine startup quality (before the rest of the world recognizes it)?
- Mahn 11y agoCut them some slack, a lot of winners today wouldn't have looked like obvious winners when they first applied at YC.
- pbreit 11y agoI hear ya. I just look at some of the recent lists and have sort of a "meh" reaction. Ironic that Zenefits is the last major breakout.
- LukeG 11y agofwiw — and I say this as a cofounder in probably the least successful YC batch of all time — the stuff coming out of the program these these is years ahead of what it was then.