YC is doing a first ever Fall 24 batch

Re:YC is doing a first ever Fall 24 batch by dartos on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @07:40AM (#41180331)

I have no strong feelings towards or against YC, but your whole argument seems to hinge on

> Many of those companies would have been worth plenty without YC.

How would you know this?

Are there many companies that got accepted by YC, turned them down, and got as big as the average YC company?

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Re:YC is doing a first ever Fall 24 batch by pclmulqdq on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @09:21AM (#41181186)

I told you that there's no data, but the heads of YC have outright said this, so I believe them.

Counterfactuals like this are famously hard to prove, and even the statistic you want does not prove it.

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