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Companies take time to become successful, so the verdict is still out on most of the companies that started in the last 10 years. Time will tell. Though there
by tasn 2y ago
Companies take time to become successful, so the verdict is still out on most of the companies that started in the last 10 years. Time will tell.
Though there are already quite a few successrul YC companies from the last few years. Full list of top YC companies: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies https://www.ycombinator.com/companies (filter by "top companies")
- pclmulqdq 2y agoI believe median time to unicorn status is now about 7 years, so this is not as uncertain as you think. In other words, 50% of YC's 7-year old unicorns have already showed up. The number is higher for older companies.
- pyb 2y agoDropbox and Airbnb were superhot companies within 2 or 3 years after YC. My first Airbnb booking was in 2013, and that I felt like a late adopter.
- scarface_74 2y agoJust looking at how most have done since going public , most VC backed companies including YC are just exiting and finding the “bigger fool”. YC has done phenomenal for itself. For the public that bought at IPO - not so much. https://www.marketsentiment.co/p/the-yc-report https://www.marketsentiment.co/p/the-yc-report If you invested equally in all YC companies on their IPO day, you would now be down 49% compared to the +58% return of the S&P500! 14 of the 17 companies lost money for the investor, and 3 companies lost more than 99% of their IPO value. Only one company ended up beating the S&P 500 benchmark