Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA • Hacker News Board

What are some of the more well known YC companies of the previous 3 years? Some posterchilds like Dropbox and AirBnB were a few more years ago. (from traditional IT category, not FinTech, etc)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 5:17 PM UTC

ryanSrich wrote: post #58

Seeing some of the recent startups that have come out of YC and learning about what they're working on; I can't imagine how they'd scale to a billion dollar business. Question: Is this a signal that YC is now investing in companies that don't have such lucrative paths? If so, how does YC justify such a decision to their partners.

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Post by awwstn » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 5:17 PM UTC

In what ways have your criteria for selecting great startups changed or evolved over the past 5 years? (either your criteria personally or YC's general criteria)

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Post by mwseibel » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 5:19 PM UTC

wasd wrote: post #11

What's an upcoming changes to YC you're excited for?

I'm really excited for the Startup School MOOC we are launching soon and excited about all the new software we are building to help the new YC batch and all the alumni. Most people don't realize how much of a software company YC is. We run our own internal mini-facebook, internal quora, and a host of other sofware to track companies and read applications.

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Post by healthenclave » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 5:20 PM UTC

Hello Michael,

Thanks for the AMA

Question: Is there are more stringent criteria for accepting international founders and companies, focused on their local markets?

The reason I am asking this is because most of the companies from India in the latest batch, seem to have a lot of traction and/or significant amount of funding before being accepted into YC. Most looks like good candidates for Series A.

Vs other US based founders and startups in the current and previous batches

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Post by tpae » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 5:20 PM UTC

are you guys considering decentralized web apps as well? e.g.) ipfs/ethereum based web apps