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I distinctly remember being surprised at this turn of events. It didn't seem natural, but then again I understood startup hiring was a challenge (for different

by zach 15y ago

I distinctly remember being surprised at this turn of events. It didn't seem natural, but then again I understood startup hiring was a challenge (for different reasons then versus now). I haven't heard of much YC intermerging since then. I would be interested to hear what the current status and thinking is on the subject of YC startups merging with each other.

nostrademons 15y ago
It happens all the time, although I think it's now more typical for successful YC startups to bring the founders of less-successful YC startups on board as early employees. Scribd was apparently formed from the merger (and reshuffling) of 3 YC startups. Slinkset merged into Posterous. I was just talking a couple months ago with a former YC founder I knew from Google about founding another startup, but he ended up signing on with an existing YC company as an early employee instead.