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Re:All it takes is for one to work out by rmason on Saturday November 29, 2025 @08:48PM (#46092780)
What about Replit? Two guys in a coffee shop in Jordan, you cannot be much further from Silicon Valley. They got turned down four times from YC and decided never to try again. But pg fell in love with the startup and urged him to try again. Then during the interview one of them got into a heated argument with Michael Siebel and thought for sure he had failed.

Yet he got in without a wealthy family and an American Ivy League degree. There are lots of other examples, I can even think of a one in Michigan.

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Re:All it takes is for one to work out by raw_anon_1111 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @12:17AM (#46094023)
And how many of the thousands of YC companies have disappeared in to obscurity?

How many of these do you think will see a successful exit?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E...

And “raising funding” is not a successful business. Having an exit where you as the founder makes an outsized return is.

Another definition is being profitable. Any idiot can sell dollars for $0.95 backed by VC’s hoping to find the “greater fool”

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