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I'm not familiar with the messagebird story but there have been other later stage companies in YC before. For example, Quora entered YC when worth $900 million.
by jaredsohn 9y ago
I'm not familiar with the messagebird story but there have been other later stage companies in YC before. For example, Quora entered YC when worth $900 million. https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/11/quora-y-combinator/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/11/quora-y-combinator/
- mlevental 9y agowhat in the world is the point of that
- lbotos 9y agoYou can read about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723278
- hkmurakami 9y agoselected from one of the replies - this seems to be a better synopsis from the CEO himself. https://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-did-Quora-join-the-2014-Y-Combinator-batch/answer/Adam-DAngelo?srid=Om6j&share=1 https://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-did-Quora-join-the-2... >There are a bunch of reasons why it's valuable for Quora to be a YC company: >We'll have Sam and all the other partners to help us. >We get to be part of the YC community / alumni network of founders. >We get access to all the resources of YC. >We were raising money anyway, so there was no overhead in letting YC participate - this ends up the same for us as if we had just raised slightly more money from Tiger. And independent of the benefits to Quora, I think it will be fun personally to participate in some of the YC events. I hope my perspective can help some of the other companies.
- swyx 9y agoTIL. thanks for the followup.