Does Theranos count? I'd say they achieved even less than most start-ups.
Why would Theranos count? They were not YC.
Y Combinator Failed Startups
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#32How can you make a list of failed yc companies and not mention homejoy? $66m raised, bad operations, bas unit economics, lawsuits and an abrupt shutdown. All of that after being the calley darling for so long.
After stealing HomeJoy's customer DB for another start-up, she is now a YC partner...
Move fast and break things?
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#33Missing Airware - $112M raised.
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#34A really good idea. Not at all the same social/economic climate as it was at the time but I couldn't help remembering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company which really lent some perspective to industry when it was so hard to understand where the hell all these dotcoms came from and why not all of us were getting the millions.
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#35How can you make a list of failed yc companies and not mention homejoy? $66m raised, bad operations, bas unit economics, lawsuits and an abrupt shutdown. All of that after being the calley darling for so long.
It's clearly not a very complete list. I wish they had presented a more complete list, filterable by funding round, amount raised, year founded, year shut down, and maybe one or 2 other things.
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#36This is my first time hearing about uBiome. Oh well, at least I have one of their t-shirts from some startup trade show thingie I went to. It's pretty cool looking.
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#37How can you make a list of failed yc companies and not mention homejoy? $66m raised, bad operations, bas unit economics, lawsuits and an abrupt shutdown. All of that after being the calley darling for so long.
After stealing HomeJoy's customer DB for another start-up, she is now a YC partner... Move fast and break things?
i dont know Adora and i'm sure she has useful things to teach people. however i really wonder if this clouds every interaction with people going through YC. it's kind of the huge elephant in the room.
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#38How can you make a list of failed yc companies and not mention homejoy? $66m raised, bad operations, bas unit economics, lawsuits and an abrupt shutdown. All of that after being the calley darling for so long.
After stealing HomeJoy's customer DB for another start-up, she is now a YC partner... Move fast and break things?
I guess people can brand themselves as "successful" after what is by all objective standards a spectacular failure.
I have no idea how impressive Adora is and I cannot speak to her qualifications, but HomeJoy should be a textbook example of an SV failure.
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#39To all those who failed (apart from the weird sounding fraud with the FBI), well done for actually climbing into the arena and fighting. Better luck next time.
To the rest of us. Schadenfreude is its own reward.
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#40How can you make a list of failed yc companies and not mention homejoy? $66m raised, bad operations, bas unit economics, lawsuits and an abrupt shutdown. All of that after being the calley darling for so long.
After stealing HomeJoy's customer DB for another start-up, she is now a YC partner... Move fast and break things?
The person who was accused of "stealing customer data" was the other co-founder - not Adora (CEO & now YC partner).
If you actually look into the details of the matter, what happened was that the co-founder acquired the failed company as it was put through a bankruptcy process.
People who weren't privy to the process thought it was stealing when it really wasn't different from any other acquisition.