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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 challen
by 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 agoSure, 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 agoIt 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.