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I found YCList to be out of date and inaccurate for the handful of companies I've looked for on there in the past. Not sure about its general overall accuracy t

I found YCList to be out of date and inaccurate for the handful of companies I've looked for on there in the past. Not sure about its general overall accuracy though.

RA_Fisher 9y ago
It was accurate for all the exits I looked at. Would be cool to have a GitHub hosted source csv so we could all keep it accurate. It's pretty easy to re-run the analysis if anyone finds a mistake: https://github.com/statwonk/yc?files=1 https://github.com/statwonk/yc?files=1
- Judgmentality 9y ago
  YC publishes their own database for this. http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
  - RA_Fisher 9y ago
    Awesome!! I had no idea. Edit: no exit info though. :(
  - sillysaurus3 9y ago
    No statuses (acquired, dead, etc) so it's not very useful except as a starting point for a useful database.
    - Judgmentality 9y ago
      The dead links are dead companies. But you are correct they don't identify exits.
nicholasjbs 9y ago
It's very inaccurate for my batch (S10) at least, for which I know of about twice as many exits as are listed. And as others have mentioned, the bigger challenge is that "exits" aren't a good metric for either gauging YC's success or for making founders rich. The companies that have "failed" to convert (i.e., exit) from S10 include Stripe, PagerDuty, and Docker.
- justonepost 9y ago
  Sure, but that error rate is probably relatively consistent. Probably exits aren't listed for earlier years either. Unless everyone is getting more secretive about exits, which is interesting in itself. Anyways, maybe someone from YC will comment. They know the truth and it's a worthwhile figure to publish.
  - lelandbatey 9y ago
    It is probably not that exits are more secret and more that since YC has scaled up the number of entrants, so the number of exits that people care to publisize becomes a smaller and smaller percent of the total number of members in a batch.

I found YCList to be out of date and inaccurate for the handful of companies I've looked for on there in the past. Not sure about its general overall accuracy though.

RA_Fisher 9y ago

It was accurate for all the exits I looked at. Would be cool to have a GitHub hosted source csv so we could all keep it accurate. It's pretty easy to re-run the analysis if anyone finds a mistake: https://github.com/statwonk/yc?files=1 https://github.com/statwonk/yc?files=1

Judgmentality 9y ago
YC publishes their own database for this. http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
- RA_Fisher 9y ago
  Awesome!! I had no idea. Edit: no exit info though. :(
- sillysaurus3 9y ago
  No statuses (acquired, dead, etc) so it's not very useful except as a starting point for a useful database.
  - Judgmentality 9y ago
    The dead links are dead companies. But you are correct they don't identify exits.

nicholasjbs 9y ago

It's very inaccurate for my batch (S10) at least, for which I know of about twice as many exits as are listed. And as others have mentioned, the bigger challenge is that "exits" aren't a good metric for either gauging YC's success or for making founders rich. The companies that have "failed" to convert (i.e., exit) from S10 include Stripe, PagerDuty, and Docker.

justonepost 9y ago
Sure, but that error rate is probably relatively consistent. Probably exits aren't listed for earlier years either. Unless everyone is getting more secretive about exits, which is interesting in itself. Anyways, maybe someone from YC will comment. They know the truth and it's a worthwhile figure to publish.
- lelandbatey 9y ago
  It is probably not that exits are more secret and more that since YC has scaled up the number of entrants, so the number of exits that people care to publisize becomes a smaller and smaller percent of the total number of members in a batch.