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Did you read the parent tweet? (I missed it at first.) I think there's an empirical claim being made - YC has produced less successful startups in the last ten
by edanm 2y ago
Did you read the parent tweet? (I missed it at first.)
I think there's an empirical claim being made - YC has produced less successful startups in the last ten years, so something must be wrong, and this is a guess as to what the problem is.
I'm not convinced the empirical claim is true, though, personally. Of course you'll have less successes given shorter timespans, and not recognizing that is a common failure mode for these kinds of analyses.
- fakedang 2y ago> YC has produced less successful startups in the last ten years, so something must be wrong, and this is a guess as to what the problem is. I would certainly assume it's PG's eventual retreat and finally exit, and the Altman years. Contrast PG's reasonably close contact with YC startups vs Altman's looser approach. It's kind of stark that some of the startups that I assumed would be obvious fits for the YC model are not YC companies.
- fakedang 2y agoEdit: some of the startup successes that I assumed*
- pedrolinoni 2y agoWhere did you take this information?