YC Stats Winter 2015 • Hacker News Board

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by xasos » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:53 PM UTC

katm wrote: post #53

cllns wrote: post #35

Companies with a female founder: 25 (21.93%) Companies with a Black founder: 9 (7.89%) Companies with a Hispanic founder: 6 (5.26%) They should release the stats of the number of people overall, not the number of companies with at least one member who fits into one of those groups. For example, say X% of the people are female, etc.

We've historically reported companies versus individuals, so we wanted to stay consistent. But that's fair -- we'll put it in those terms next time we release stats.

Do you have historical data? It seems as if the number of minority founders is growing (which is awesome!)

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by salusinarduis » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:57 PM UTC

jonlucc wrote: post #46

salusinarduis wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YC has a sharded structure now. Arguably startups now get more attention than in some of the earlier batches.

Can you explain this a little more? Are there different groups where each group has a mentor or shared resources?

Prior to sharding all partners were responsible for keeping up with everyone in a batch.

Now there are multiple groupings of partners which oversee a smaller subset.

I'm not certain, but I'm sure partners are assigned based on their domain expertise. Though, I'm sure all partners are open to helping anyone in the batch if needed.

Can anyone comment on this?

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by whbk » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

mycroft-holmes wrote: post #59

jlhonora wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that offensive? How would you phrase it correctly?

Parent probably is looking for "African-American" even though they may not be African-American.

Yikes - actually I missed the 'founder' below the numbers, so I thought 'companies with a black' was the whole description. Nothing offensive about it as it's actually written, I just skipped my coffee this morning and now look like a jackass. Mea culpa :)

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by thearn4 » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 6:01 PM UTC

katm wrote: post #37

thearn4 wrote: post #15

I'm interested to hear more about the one aerospace startup that they funded in this class.

They haven't launched publicly yet. You'll hear about them soon.

Excellent. If we're talking civil aviation and space, it may be one of the hardest industries to disrupt thanks to regulatory capture (and a million other things), but from a technical standpoint there is a tremendous amount of room for improving the current state-of-the-art.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by lordnacho » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 6:08 PM UTC

It would be great to have stats on the applicants as well. It would be good to know whether to bother applying given various info (single founder, no customers yet, sector, etc).

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by jlhonora » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 6:08 PM UTC

whbk wrote: post #63

mycroft-holmes wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent probably is looking for "African-American" even though they may not be African-American.

Yikes - actually I missed the 'founder' below the numbers, so I thought 'companies with a black' was the whole description. Nothing offensive about it as it's actually written, I just skipped my coffee this morning and now look like a jackass. Mea culpa :)

That's OK, I was utterly curious

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by astrange » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 6:08 PM UTC

katm wrote: post #13

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…

Thanks for catching. Making a few updates to clarify.

Your Hispanic founder graphic seems to be missing the flagpole!

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by kilovoltaire » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 6:13 PM UTC

What are the four $1B+ companies?

I can think of AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, ...

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by Alex3917 » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 6:25 PM UTC

kilovoltaire wrote: post #68

What are the four $1B+ companies? I can think of AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, ...

Twitch.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by pc86 » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 6:26 PM UTC

dominicgs wrote: post #41

codeonfire wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you not assume the opposite? I would assume the most experienced people with the most knowledge, contacts, and money to be in their 40s and 50s.

Warning, I'm about to make a couple of massive generalisations... I would guess that most 40-50 year olds who already have knowledge, contacts and money don't apply to YC, probably because they don't feel that they need it. I expect that founders at that age are more likely to be coming from a position of experience within their target industry, i.e. solving a problem that they've seen/experienced. They may not be tr…

Not to mention the fact that it's probably quite a bit harder to convince a group of 40-50 year olds to move to SV for 3 months for $18k than it is a group a 21 year olds.