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YC Stats Winter 2015

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Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by staunch »

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.

Sam Altman wrote 8 months ago:

> As a side note, even though it will break backwards compatibility, we are considering changing how we look at this to the percentage of all founders that are women instead of the percentage of companies with a female founder.

http://blog.ycombinator.com/diversity-and-startups

After being told by dozens of people how obviously misleading this statistic is. It was beneath YC to ever release such a phony stat, but it's downright unethical to continue propagating it.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by justplay »

monsterix wrote: post #4

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.

please go and apply. if you need inspiration check http://fundersandfounders.com/too-late-to-start-life-crisis/
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