3 ms·

If the value of YC goes down, it should be clear soon, because the valuation of YC startups on demo day will go down. That hasn’t been the case at all though -

by lacker 6y ago

If the value of YC goes down, it should be clear soon, because the valuation of YC startups on demo day will go down. That hasn’t been the case at all though - since 2010 when I first went through YC the typical valuations have pretty clearly been trending up. I hope YC can keep scaling, because the number of startups is not fixed. I would like to live in a world where a startup is going public every day, where YC funds tens of thousands of startups every year. Maybe we can get there.

parhamn 6y ago
That would definitely be a misleading measure of this change’s success. Valuations have been rising steadily across VC, significantly so. I’m sure it would at YC regardless of this change as well. Founders will be speaking about how useful it is soon and we’ll most likely trust them. Hope they keep quality because it is awesome to have it be more inclusive!