YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
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YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
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Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
#2Wth. Blume benefits sounds like a really useful thing ? Wonder what happened.
Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
#3how many YC startups are there?
wiki says 4K, so 821/4K = 20%. not too bad. I expected much worse.
Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
#4Something is blocking the UI (loading the images?) but cool site!
Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
#5how many YC startups are there? wiki says 4K, so 821/4K = 20%. not too bad. I expected much worse.
It's certainly much worse. It's often difficult to tell when a company is dead unless they announce it.
Many other failures (likely most of YC's portfolio) will have died by being acquired for less than the most recent valuation, meaning YC lost money on the deal. These sometimes look like successful exits unless you know the details.
Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
#6Wth. Blume benefits sounds like a really useful thing ? Wonder what happened.
A) If being useful were enough to make a product successful, we'd still have Google Reader
B) We have no way of knowing how well Blume's product actually worked
C) Health insurance is heavily regulated, which means it's not a great target market for AI
Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
#7Wth. Blume benefits sounds like a really useful thing ? Wonder what happened.
Generally the ones that don't sound useful do better. Why Stripe? Why Airbnb? Why Twitter? There's less competition and winner takes all.
Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
#8how many YC startups are there? wiki says 4K, so 821/4K = 20%. not too bad. I expected much worse.
It's certainly much worse. It's often difficult to tell when a company is dead unless they announce it. Many other failures (likely most of YC's portfolio) will have died by being acquired for less than the most recent valuation, meaning YC lost money on the deal. These sometimes look like successful exits unless you know the details.
Also, it's not counting many of the startups from the last few years which haven't had enough time to fail. If the denominator is the total number of exits then it's probably much lower than 4k.
Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
#9I personally know the founders of three YC startups that are functionally dead (raised capital, not developing anything, basically laid off everyone but the founder(s)) but are not on this list. I'd bet it's at least twice that number.
Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
#10how many YC startups are there? wiki says 4K, so 821/4K = 20%. not too bad. I expected much worse.
It's certainly much worse. It's often difficult to tell when a company is dead unless they announce it. Many other failures (likely most of YC's portfolio) will have died by being acquired for less than the most recent valuation, meaning YC lost money on the deal. These sometimes look like successful exits unless you know the details.
Companies also almost never announce their death. Startups go to die quietly. Paul Graham says the best indicator is they don't reply to emails, but this is usually something that's not very visible.