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YC has the sustainable business model and does make a profit. How many teams within traditional corporations are profitable? How many new products that traditi
by jot 15y ago
YC has the sustainable business model and does make a profit.
How many teams within traditional corporations are profitable? How many new products that traditional corporations launch are profitable?
- djnliung 15y agoYC can't replace the traditional corporation when the traditional corporation is the customer that buys their product.
- jot 15y agoThe most successful (profitable) YC "products", Heroku, Dropbox and Airbnb, have very sound business models with tens of thousands of customers that are not "traditional corporations".
- ryanisinallofus 15y agoHeroku was acquired and is an excellent example of YC startups being the product traditional corporations purchase.
- runako 15y agoIs the fact that Heroku was acquired the rationale for calling it the 'product' purchased by 'traditional corporations'? If so, what threshold would you apply for when a company can be considered successful before it gets acquired? As companies of all sizes get acquired, aren't they all then 'product' that wasn't successful until a real company bought them?