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Re:How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders by bigstrat2003 on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:51PM (#46508189)
If you don't consider tens of millions of dollars in revenue a success, your definition of "success" is completely out of whack.
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Re:How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders by YetAnotherNick on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:56PM (#46508898)
Depends on development cost, no? If game development costs 10s to 100s of millions of dollars, 10 million in revenue is a failure.
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Re:How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders by Espressosaurus on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:15PM (#46508662)
It’s not successful for a VC.

VCs are looking for the billion dollar exit. 10s of millions is 100-1000x off what they look for

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