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What am I missing? You seem to be taking the YC-specific unicorn numbers and dividing them by the much broader A16Z "fundable" numbers. Apples & oranges, no?
by ppezaris 8y ago
What am I missing? You seem to be taking the YC-specific unicorn numbers and dividing them by the much broader A16Z "fundable" numbers. Apples & oranges, no?
- anoncoward111 8y agoI assert that they aren't apples and oranges becauss YC has picked every single unicorn there is to pick up until very recently. Therefore, both the 2,000 number from A16Z and 19 number from YC can be directly compared. Do you think it is significantly easier to pick unicorns than I am describing? Because it seems very, very hard. So hard, in fact, that YC has to pick 150 or so per year and hope that one or two hit 1000x to make up for the others.
- tlb 8y agoI wish YC could have funded every unicorn! In reality there are a few hundred such companies worldwide, so it's less than 1 in 10. https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies has a list.
- anoncoward111 8y agoOld tweet but here is where I was basing my "YC funded every unicorn" assertion (as of 2015) https://mobile.twitter.com/rabois/status/634205368172814337 https://mobile.twitter.com/rabois/status/634205368172814337
- dvdhsu 8y agoThe tweet you referenced is talking about companies that actually applied to YC. Uber, for example, never applied to YC.