How YC Has Changed

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Post by katm » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 5:43 PM UTC

How YC Has Changed
blog.ycombinator.com

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Post by mwseibel » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 5:52 PM UTC

I'll be hanging out in the comments this morning if anyone would like to discuss.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 5:58 PM UTC

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Post by anupgosavi111 » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

As you have scaled other things, can't you scale feedback for companies? Atleast, for what you consider top 10% or so?

We applied last batch and got a question around a competitor that had just gotten funding. Not sure if that was the reason of the reject.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

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Post by mwseibel » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:08 PM UTC

anupgosavi111 wrote: post #4

As you have scaled other things, can't you scale feedback for companies? Atleast, for what you consider top 10% or so? We applied last batch and got a question around a competitor that had just gotten funding. Not sure if that was the reason of the reject.

Unfortunately with over 8000 applicants each batch that is very very hard but I will talk to our admissions team to see if there is anything we can do to improve in this area. I apologize for how frustrating it is to get a YC rejection.

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Post by olalekan007 » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:13 PM UTC

Im looking to get in but I have been stalking the hacker page trying to skim every single information I can and believe me...I'm a walking hacker news...lol. Seibel is doing a great Job in encouraging soon to be/ start-ups to apply to Yc...he's shown an uncommon belief in startups regardless of what they do or where they from. That to me is a great change to the psyche of yc. If a lot more people are open as you are we'll have more start-ups. I'm not trying to schmooze you incase I say less about yc community...I haven't had that experience yet.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:20 PM UTC

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Post by NkenuTimothy » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:22 PM UTC

Interesting. Personalized rejections (one worded statements given the quantity of applications) would be great.

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Post by andygcook » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:31 PM UTC

Surprised Stripe didn't explicitly make the list of notable startups from over the years. Bigger than even Dropbox by valuation (obviously not apples to apples vs. public market cap) and arguably has had a bigger positive impact on the world than any other YC startup by actively increasing the GDP of the internet.