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Does YC accept founders that aren't 22-26 years old in the Bay area and went to MIT, Berkeley, or Caltech? I've met quite a few in person and they fit a very sp
by Eumenes 2y ago
Does YC accept founders that aren't 22-26 years old in the Bay area and went to MIT, Berkeley, or Caltech? I've met quite a few in person and they fit a very specific archetype. Perhaps thats whose applying, but I do wonder.
- aadhavans 2y ago> MIT, Berkeley, or Caltech Don't forget Stanford.
- paxys 2y agoFounder profiles are all public, so you can check for yourself – https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/founders https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/founders Or was this just supposed to be snarky?
- stackskipton 2y agoDidn't know that existed. Looking through there, the answer to the question seems to be, most founders come from Top 20 Universities with heavy weighting towards Top 5.
- ghufran_syed 2y agothanks for the link, i think this is the best possible answer to the question “does yc accept $people_like_me?”. I love how open yc is about stuff like this - I just learned that 3 people from one of my UK universities were yc founders at some point! (southampton university)
- tgma 2y agoI always am curious when someone asks this question from an open forum why wouldn't they simply fill out the form and get a definitive answer? What we know for sure is they don't accept founders that don't fill out the form[1]. [1] with a few exceptions, perhaps.
- ghufran_syed 2y agoBecause that would give you exactly one data point, and for your decision-making, you instead want to understand the distribution
- tptacek 2y agoYes.
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- amy-petrik-214 2y agoFor sure, they accept Stanford grads for example, and Harvard or Princeton sometimes have a shot