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

Re:Ask HN: Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone ... by ChuckMcM on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:00PM (#10401663)
I think there is a simple fallacy in your question, you wrote:

   > After 10 years of success, and a lot of VC-backed
   > companies that would be looking for eventual exits,
   > that seemed like a surprising statistic.
"IPO" is perhaps the smallest member of the set "eventual exits". Take the set of all companies funded by VC money since 2005, take the number of IPOs by VC funded companies since 2005, and you will get a very small number. (If the folks at MatterMark want to pop in here, they have this probability in their dataset).
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