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And the few that have gone public have done awful https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-combinator-companies-a-mixed-bag-of-success-and-s
by raw_anon_1111 10mo ago
And the few that have gone public have done awful
https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-combinator-companies-a-mixed-bag-of-success-and-struggle-58e9a4006f01 https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...
- catlifeonmars 10mo agoIs going public the ultimate goal of every startup?
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoThe goal of the startup doesn’t matter once they take VC funding. The goal of the investors is the exit - either via acquisition or going public. The most likely outcome is failure, the second most likely outcome is an acquisition. Going public is a distant third
- ViscountPenguin 10mo agoIt's surprising to me that investors have been so wrong about combinator IPOs. I wonder if this has been driven my retail, or by the expectation of a small probability of enormous success.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoOklo seems to have recovered thanks to the AI boom and they made a deal with Meta to deliver power fir their data centers. It looks like the best performing YC stock
- jmalicki 10mo agoMost of the bad ones IPOd in 2021, when there was a huge overvaluation of speculative tech companies... Marking performance since IPO is also a bit weird since it's kind of arbitrary date in the firm's history.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoThey have collectively had a return of -49% when the S&P 500 have had a return of 58%. It shows that all of the value went to the VCs and the public markets were the “bigger fools”.