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- kbrower 18y agoI would like to see the trend of this number over time
- breck 18y agoWhat is more significant is that these are 198 highly skilled jobs.
- mattmaroon 18y agoI'm almost positive there are a couple office manager/secretary types in there (though those can be highly skilled too, just in a different way) but yeah, mostly. The average salary is probably 50% above national average.
- breck 18y agoHa, I originally typed "What is more significant is that, for the most part, these are 198 highly skilled jobs." But sometimes you have to be less precise to make a more memorable point.
- inerte 18y agoInteresting, how do you think it fits with your Founder Visa essay? Is it possible to extrapolate and say that 26 companies == 200 jobs, maybe 10k companies ~= 75k jobs? . IMHO, not quite, since 10k companies wouldn't get funded the way current YC companies are, but just thinking about and compiling these stats are a good tool to approach politicians. Oh, and I just thought about a lame joke: Yay! The ramen industry has 198 new costumers. Actually not that lame, what's the value-social-capital contribution to society from a YC employee, compared to 198 new Google employees? Who would politicians backup? Why they love Wal-Mart even if it decreases the local economy output? And yeah, I know the answer to the last question ;)
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- mattmaroon 18y agoYou probably aren't aware that we just hired 3 more. Make it 201.
- aswanson 18y agoSounds like you are doing good. Issuing any stock to unqualified investors? (Psst, I won't tell the SEC if you won't, Matt)
- ttacor 18y agoIs there a crisis actually :)? If yes you have plenty of talent to hire...
- mattmaroon 18y agoHa. Raising money is bad enough even when you do it above board. Thankfully it seems unlikely I'll have to again.
- notdarkyet 18y agoWhat is your company if you don't mind me asking?
- mattmaroon 18y agoBlue Frog Gaming
- fleaflicker 18y agoIs draftmix defunct or just in offseason?
- mattmaroon 18y agoAs they say on match.com, it's complicated.
- octane 18y agoI'd be more interested to know what the median salary is.
- bdr 18y agoWhy not count founders? At least, those who draw a salary. Those are jobs too.
- tdavis 18y agoThey're jobs held by founders, not employees. It was an employee count.
- bdr 18y agoThat's not a constructive reply. It should be obvious to you that I know that. My comment contained an implicit guess at the purpose of the survey.
- abstractbill 18y agoFounders are still employees though.
- pg 18y agoI already had a rough idea of that number. (Multiply the number of startups by 2.5 and you're close.)
- rokhayakebe 18y agoI am assuming that most poeple here will be delighted by these numbers. 200 jobs. 100+ startups. Millions of users. Millions of dollars in revenue etc... Great, but frankly I would not measure YC off those numbers. Fast forward YC 10-20 years from now. You often hear of Paypal or Google Mafia. My guess is that the YC Mafia will be orders of magnitude more powerful. Successful founders will go on to invest into more startups or create more startups, hence creating more jobs, bringing out more technologies, helping more companies etc....
- jmtulloss 18y agoI agree with you here. The positive effects of successful startups can quickly turn exponential in scale. YC's just a butterfly, flapping its wings on its side of the globe...
- vaksel 18y agoMaybe do a more involved study, see how many are programmers, how many are sales people, how many are marketing people, etc etc.
- funkydejected 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_The_198 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_The_198
- logicalmind 18y agoSomewhat off topic, but that blog is the first time I've seen a picture of pg after all the years of reading his essays and such. He looks nothing like I imagined he'd look. Not sure if that is good or bad, just interesting.
- mattyb 18y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html
- logicalmind 18y agoInteresting, I never bothered to look for his picture. But when I visited that link I saw the pic and thought, "who's that?". Over time you get a mental picture in your mind of someone you don't see, like when listening to the radio. Then sometimes you finally see that person and the do, or do not, look like your minds picture. Now I have to reconcile his real picture with my minds picture when reading his essays. Based on the voting, I must be the only one. Oh, well...
- Xichekolas 18y agoOh you aren't the only one. I had the same moment of cognitive dissonance at Startup School last year. You get over it. ;)
- Mintz 18y agoWait, number 200 has to be a supermodel!! [/HowIMetYourMotherJoke]
- brezina 18y agoanother piece not included are all the contractors and service providers we pay every month. There are 18 non-founder employees at Xobni , but then we have at least 2 FTEs in contractors, a part-time CFO, a part-time bookkeeper, and stretching things a bit, a legal bill i don't want to mention (contract attorney, corporate attorney, IP attorney), there is probably 20-30% of our workforce that isn't counted as employees it always surprises me to see how many people's lives we touch (and i'm talking outside of all the users)
- lacker 18y agoWhen I go to http://ycombinator.posterous.com/ http://ycombinator.posterous.com/ I get a message saying "Welcome to neo.taki.net :)". Is this a config error, something weird on my end, is this hacked?....
- tophat02 18y agoCan I just say: I LOVE posterous. Excellent startup, YC!