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It’s a yc (VC backed) company. You know the goal.
by swman 5y ago
It’s a yc (VC backed) company. You know the goal.
- dang 5y agoHmm, interesting comment: it could mean either of two opposite things, but that makes it self-contradictory! Just for clarity, when YC funds a company, the goal is not to have it get acquired. It's to have it go public. Acquisition interrupts that, so it's a suboptimal outcome. That said, YC supports what founders want to do.
- swman 5y agoTrue. I was making a simple blanket statement that for most VC backed companies you can be sure the end goal is either acquisition or successful ipo.
- jacquesm 5y agoHow many YC companies ended up going public out of the total? And how large is that total? What is the expected timeframe from launch to IPO? How many companies still outside of that window? Those would be interesting stats to have.