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YC Stats Winter 2015

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Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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

What does it mean? Is it that the '84-'84 age group has always been the median since the first YC? (Ie. the median is increasing every year?)

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Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If this is true, maybe there's something particularly interesting about the '84/'85 generation. These people were about 10 years old when the Web happened and 15 years old when Napster and digital cameras took off, so they probably haven't written too many snailmail letters, bought CDs or taken photos on film. Perhaps that gives them a perspective that's more "digitally native" than older people, yet they have more e…

My theory - people in this age group entered college at a very low point in the software development market. This was both because of the dot-com bubble crash, and because outsourcing had just begun and quality outsourcing was far cheaper than it is today. C, Java, and horrible APIs dominated at the time. Javascript and browser compatibility were a mess. It was a far less glamorous industry than it's become now over the past 15 years.

Few people who began training for a development career at this time were in it just for quick money.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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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.

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post #53
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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.

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