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Re:Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Bost... by reaperman on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @08:47PM (#39846491)
This might help for creating an initial analysis: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/founders

Of 11,162 YC founders who haven't opted out of the directory, the top 9 alma maters account for nearly exactly 20% of founders.

    540 - Stanford University
    388 - University of California, Berkeley
    373 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    193 - University of Waterloo
    187 - Harvard University
    144 - Carnegie Mellon University
    143 - Columbia University
    143 - University of Pennsylvania
    124 - Cornell University
I don't know what you'd compare this to for "society at large" but of the 500 CEO's in the Fortune 500, the top 9 alma maters account for about 16% of those CEO's.

    25 - Harvard University
    11 - Stanford University
    9 - University of Pennsylvania
    7 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    6 - Cornell University
    6 - University of Chicago
    6 - Northwestern
    6 - Columbia University
    6 - Yale
Re:Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Bost... by ethanwillis on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @11:43PM (#39847554)
Very nice work and pretty interesting to see. The comparison for society at large is definitely difficult, but I'm not sure if there's a better one than what you've come up with.
Re:Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Bost... by HPMOR on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @09:13PM (#39846682)
It's nice to see my ala mater up there! Go Cornell! Also, I know PG disassociates himself from his roots but it's nice to know he was probably once sitting at the same desk I'm at now.
Re:Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Bost... by haltIncomplete on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @10:08PM (#39847017)
The majority of last century’s Fortune 500s are gone, along with the people. No beating physics.

VC is just rich people gambling how many normies they can get to set aside their agency to huff VC farts