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This article states that YC is now valued at $13.7 billion. Actually, the cited source credits pg recently saying that is the current valuation of all of the YC
by bfe 13y ago
This article states that YC is now valued at $13.7 billion. Actually, the cited source credits pg recently saying that is the current valuation of all of the YC startups, not of YC itself.
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- pg 13y agoYipes, nothing like that. That's the total value of all the companies we've funded. We assume we end up with 3% on average after dilution.
- mathattack 13y ago3% of 13.7 billion (and growing) is still worth writing home about!
- argumentum 13y agoThat would value YC at around $400m, but isn't the mean dilution insufficient, since YC would be diluted the most for the highest valued startups? A very interesting question: once it's all said and done (let's say in 30 years), do you think YC will have a greater valuation than any single YC startup?
- pg 13y agoUnlikely given the power law distribution of startup outcomes. But if you set a threshold defining a big hit and we funded 33 of them we'd end up being one ourselves. It's conceivable we could fund 33 big hits in 30 years. Depends how much we grow. (3% is our estimate for the biggest successes.)