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A comment on Ask HN: Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone public via IPO?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone ... by RockyMcNuts on Friday October 16, 2015 @03:51PM (#10401618)
Didn't mean to imply a problem, or a criticism, or anything, really.

My prior would be that the public market has really changed in significance for tech.

the ~900 is the wrong base rate, takes 7-10 years to become IPO eligible, but there were ~100 companies through '08. 0 IPOs after 10 years still seems like a bit of an outlier for a large, unusually successful seed investor.

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Re:Ask HN: Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone ... by brudgers on Friday October 16, 2015 @08:36PM (#10402880)
Line by line refutation usually indicates argument for argument's sake. It is not uncommon for people to go in search of things to take issue with.
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