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Ask YC: What financially successful companies have been born out of YC?
I have been following HackerNews and PG for about a year. I like the general ideas, but am curious because I simply do not know the answer:
What YC funded businesses turn a profit while sustaining paid employees?
- smoody 18y agowhere do i start? google?
- run4yourlives 18y agoNaw, they weren't YC funded. (I kid, obviously) To the OP: reddit was bought by conde nast. I'd imagine that gave them some cash.
- jbrun 18y agoOk, that does not really mean they were profitable though. I mean, companies that have a working business model - not just a drive traffic and sell out model (though that can be lucrative).
- run4yourlives 18y agoThat is a working business model. They have more money than they began with after expenses. Hence: profit. If you are asking for a 37Signals model, I believe there are a few, but given that YC is an place that you get funding from, they're going to pick companies that are going to give them ROI. Because of that, the results will be skewed towards models like reddit.
- icey 18y agoI believe Octopart is turning a profit.
- rms 18y agoWufoo
- jbrun 18y agointeresting company, could be useful.