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Re:37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at le... by NLPsajeeth on Sunday May 26, 2013 @09:44PM (#5773074)
pg says in a later tweet reply [1] that it is 37 out of 511. Which is 7.24%.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/338809374459977729

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Re:37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at le... by johnrob on Sunday May 26, 2013 @09:52PM (#5773085)
40 million is an arbitrary number, but it's still interesting that 7% is also the average YC equity stake.
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Re:37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at le... by grinich on Sunday May 26, 2013 @10:05PM (#5773115)
Why is that interesting?
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Re:37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at le... by johnrob on Monday May 27, 2013 @06:57PM (#5777042)
The way you justify taking x% equity is by offering to improve the odds of success by at least x%. 40 million is definitely above any basic notion of success, so it would indeed appear that YC is delivering.
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