YC Summer 2017 Stats

Post by capocannoniere » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 9:14 PM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #50

capocannoniere wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/…

See my edit above. Your wording could be better.

Post by crispytx » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC

katm wrote: post #9

koolba wrote: post #6

Interesting stats. I don't get this section though: UNDERREPRESENTED FOUNDERS S17 Female founders: 35 (12% of all S17 founders) S17 Applicants who were female: 14% S17 Companies with a female founder: 27 (21% of the batch) S17 Applications with a female founder: 22% S17 Black founders: 14 (4.76% of S17 founders) S17 Companies with a Black/Af-Am founder: 8 (6.25% of the batch) S17 Hispanic/Latinx founders: 13 (4.42% o…

* We ask for gender on our applications, but we haven't asked for race/ethnicity, which is why we don't have the answer to your first question. * We see that it does for female founders. * Total number of submissions * Gender is reported in the applications. We asked founders in the batch to self-report for race/ethnicity.

Post by nl » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:02 PM UTC

jv22222 wrote: post #52

Do people over the age of 40 ever get in to YC?

Post by edwhitesell » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

aianus wrote: post #27

adventured wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Student loans and health factors (specifically complications around health insurance or existing healthcare costs). Health considerations can be a massive issue when trying to do a start-up. At 30-40 years old (with the average age around 30, I imagine there are plenty of candidates between 30-40), some small percentage of people are likely to be running into their first health problems or concerns. Financially speak…

It's a rather marginal difference when you're already forgoing $13k a month or more in salary to be an entrepreneur instead of a bigco developer, no? Like, you'd just have to work a month or two extra before quitting to cover a year of prescriptions.

Post by Grustaf » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 10:41 PM UTC

rmena123 wrote: post #58

I can bet, if YC had the stats for race/ethnicity amount who applied, we would be shocked of the amount of blacks or Latinos who were never accepted. Especially from the early days. Count me and a few other Hispanics who never have been accepted. The only time its cared about is after the fact and just for show purposes like this. On a side Note: Yc doesn't understand people like me will never have the resume they ar…