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it really does seem like they are looking for people in their 20s. Their application asks for your HN ID for instance. We use HN ids to keep track of applicant
by pg 14y ago
it really does seem like they are looking for people in their 20s. Their application asks for your HN ID for instance.
We use HN ids to keep track of applicants, not as a filter (it's all one codebase). There is a link on the application form that lets applicants create HN ids for any cofounders who don't have one.
As for the age of people we fund, I've never studied this systematically but it feels like the median age of people we accept is about the same as the median age of people who apply.
- nirvana 14y agoMy memory was that (at least at one point) the application mentioned wanting to read someone's posts to see what kind of a thinker they are. (and also that it was ok if you didn't have one already.) This is probably a lot less practical these days than it was in the early days. The above quoted line would more accurately represent what I was trying to say if I had written: "YC really seems more geared to people in their 20s." I apologize for implying bias.
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- tptacek 14y agoHe did say that. I would be surprised to hear that they still do that.
- pg 14y agoWe don't go read people's comments after they apply (that wouldn't scale well). It's more that if we see a username we recognize for saying smart things on HN, we're more likely to invite them to interviews.
- debacle 14y agoHave you ever invited someone to apply based on their HN presence?
- debacle 14y agoWould YC ever be willing to release anonymized data, or would you consider that information proprietary?
- pg 14y agoNeither, really. We don't consider the information valuable in any way, but trying to anonymize and release it would be about 1000th on our list of priorities, and we are pretty busy.