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Impressive. But off the top of my head I can count a few more than 10 YC companies valued at $1B or more:
1) Airbnb
2) Quora
3) Stripe
4) Dropbox
5) Instacart
6) Coinbase
7) Reddit
8) Cruise
9) Twitch
10) Gusto
11) Zenefits
12) Docker
13) Machine Zone
And a few more that are pretty close to $1B
> 10 YC alum are valued at over $1B and 64 YC alum are valued at over $100M. Impressive. But off the top of my head I can count a few more than 10 YC companies valued at $1B or more: 1) Airbnb 2) Quora 3) Stripe 4) Dropbox 5) Instacart 6) Coinbase 7) Reddit 8) Cruise 9) Twitch 10) Gusto 11) Zenefits 12) Docker 13) Machine Zone And a few more that are pretty close to $1B
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> But off the top of my head I can count a few more than 10 billion-dollar companies funded by YC.
I thought you were listing 10B+ companies.
I have a side question for YC. You often mention that one of the main reasons for a startup to fail is founders dispute. But that applies to you too: you don't know the founders before accepting them. How do you trust the founders so fast? In other words, do you invest in companies in which you wouldn't want to be a founder? I just want to know more about trust , where it matters, where it doesn't maybe, what to look…
> 10 YC alum are valued at over $1B and 64 YC alum are valued at over $100M. Impressive. But off the top of my head I can count a few more than 10 YC companies valued at $1B or more: 1) Airbnb 2) Quora 3) Stripe 4) Dropbox 5) Instacart 6) Coinbase 7) Reddit 8) Cruise 9) Twitch 10) Gusto 11) Zenefits 12) Docker 13) Machine Zone And a few more that are pretty close to $1B
Are you sure about Reddit, Quora, Docker, and Twitch? Edit: > But off the top of my head I can count a few more than 10 billion-dollar companies funded by YC. I thought you were listing 10B+ companies.
Okay, I might have a bit of a hot head but: Isn't $85bn total market cap a sign of failure? Especially considering that this includes companies that have valuations because they "just raised money on high cap". Given that the valley now has multiple companies with $500bn+ market cap; and in the "still raising money" valuation there are companies with $50-100bn valuation; it seems to me that $85bn is rather very small…
(I didn't downvote.) Winners take a long time to develop. YC's pipeline makes it likely that the new ones will go through it. It's probably more likely now than in 2008, meaning a YC applicant today might be that 500bn company in 10 years.
Okay, I might have a bit of a hot head but: Isn't $85bn total market cap a sign of failure? Especially considering that this includes companies that have valuations because they "just raised money on high cap". Given that the valley now has multiple companies with $500bn+ market cap; and in the "still raising money" valuation there are companies with $50-100bn valuation; it seems to me that $85bn is rather very small…
Only one of which was founded this millennium (but still founded before YC).
> 10 YC alum are valued at over $1B and 64 YC alum are valued at over $100M. Impressive. But off the top of my head I can count a few more than 10 YC companies valued at $1B or more: 1) Airbnb 2) Quora 3) Stripe 4) Dropbox 5) Instacart 6) Coinbase 7) Reddit 8) Cruise 9) Twitch 10) Gusto 11) Zenefits 12) Docker 13) Machine Zone And a few more that are pretty close to $1B
Are you sure about Reddit, Quora, Docker, and Twitch? Edit: > But off the top of my head I can count a few more than 10 billion-dollar companies funded by YC. I thought you were listing 10B+ companies.
Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise [2]
Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation [3]
Twitch was acquired by $970M, so I guess not quite $1B.
[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/7/31/16037126/reddit-funding-200...
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/21/uniquorn/
[3] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/08/10/docke...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure about Reddit, Quora, Docker, and Twitch? Edit: > But off the top of my head I can count a few more than 10 billion-dollar companies funded by YC. I thought you were listing 10B+ companies.
Reddit raised $200 million in funding and is now valued at $1.8 billion [1] Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise [2] Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation [3] Twitch was acquired by $970M, so I guess not quite $1B. [1] https://www.recode.net/2017/7/31/16037126/reddit-funding-200... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/21/uniquorn/ [3] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/…