Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

YC Stats Winter 2015

blog.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 104 posts

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

#3

Post by minimaxir »

Why are the YC total stats for all YC companies on the W2015 infographic? That seems out of scope.

The percentages of companies with a female/black/Hispanic are slightly off. As worded, it should be calculated by

   (# W2015 companies with atleast 1 female/black/Hispanic founder) / (# W2015 companies).
For companies w/ female founders, 25 / 114 = 21.93%, not 23%.

Black: 9 / 114 = 7.89%, not 8.03%

Hispanic: 6 / 114 = 5.26%, not 5.35%

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

#4

Post by monsterix »

Age of the eldest entrepreneur @YCcombinator = 66?

I sure want to know more about this person, and their start_up!

I'm a relatively older entrepreneur too, fall right on the right side of the median. Recently I had been been thinking of applying to YC. But couldn't convince myself for it, and my age was one of the reasons.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

#5

Post by joshmlewis »

minimaxir wrote: post #3

Why are the YC total stats for all YC companies on the W2015 infographic? That seems out of scope. The percentages of companies with a female/black/Hispanic are slightly off. As worded, it should be calculated by (# W2015 companies with atleast 1 female/black/Hispanic founder) / (# W2015 companies). For companies w/ female founders, 25 / 114 = 21.93%, not 23%. Black: 9 / 114 = 7.89%, not 8.03% Hispanic: 6 / 114 = 5.2…

Yeah that was a bit confusing. They talked a little about this class but it was mostly about all of YC as a whole, I believe.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

#6

Post by solve »

illdave wrote: post #2

Interesting to note that the average founder age is 30.27 (median is 29). Not that that's old, of course - just that I imagined it'd be younger.

The median age has been pinned to the '84 - '85 age group since the start.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

#7

Post by pyrrhotech »

I think the rising age of founder trend is a good one. Probably means the snapchat/whatsapp/instagram gold mine is nearly dry and some actually difficult-to-implement and domain-knowledge requiring ideas are starting to come into focus again.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

#8

Post by tarr11 »

illdave wrote: post #2

Interesting to note that the average founder age is 30.27 (median is 29). Not that that's old, of course - just that I imagined it'd be younger.

It'd be nice to see this data as a distribution. Would tell us a lot more than a median. This might help older founders decide if it's a good fit, or if we'd be outliers there.
Post reply on HN