Paul Graham Shares Number of Y Combinator Companies Sold or Valued at Over $40M

Re:Paul Graham Shares Number of Y Combinator Companies Sold ... by rdl on Thursday December 12, 2013 @05:31PM (#6897733)

I think what's expanding is the standard deviation/variance. The mode is not moving all that much. Mean/median, a bit. There is definitely a trend toward some later companies (it used to be ~none), but there are still a lot of early stage.

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Re:Paul Graham Shares Number of Y Combinator Companies Sold ... by pg on Thursday December 12, 2013 @06:03PM (#6897904)

Also, there is little correlation between how far along a company is when we fund them and how well they end up doing.

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Re:Paul Graham Shares Number of Y Combinator Companies Sold ... by jayzalowitz on Thursday December 12, 2013 @08:14PM (#6898484)

I am sure this is true, but very specifically getting to just the level of above 40m, it can't hurt, can it? I am not saying if you fund them later they will become dropbox, just have a higher likelihood of hitting 40-50m

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Re:Paul Graham Shares Number of Y Combinator Companies Sold ... by nostrademons on Friday December 13, 2013 @03:20AM (#6899577)

Dropbox is an ironic example, because Drew applied right before the deadline with a video, a string-and-wires prototype, and no cofounder. He'd been working on it 3 months and had just barely quit his day job.

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