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Is Y Combinator growing too quickly?
- pg 15y agoEmpirically, no. The test (for both us and the founders) is how well the startups do, and this batch seems to be doing at least as well as previous batches. There are always things that break when you scale. E.g. Rehearsal Day seemed exhaustingly long this time. (It takes longer than Demo Day because there is feedback between the presentations.) We may have to spread it over 2 days next time. But we've always had some amount of breakage each cycle, because we've usually grown a lot from one to the next.
- pitdesi 15y agoCertainly makes sense that there would be some growing pains, which is the case with any company. How do you measure how well the startups "do"? Is it just a gut feeling of how far along they've come at this time in the summer?
- pg 15y agoWhat they've achieved so far. It's particularly easy to say right now, because I've just met with most of them to figure out their Demo Day pitches. There are only a handful where we had trouble making a convincing case, and in nearly all of those the reason was that they changed their idea too recently to have significant progress to report yet.
- roschdal 15y agoWhen will Y Combinator come to Europe?