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YC Summer 2017 Stats

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Re: YC Summer 2017 Stats

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Post by katm »

buro9 wrote: post #2

It would be great if the underrepresentation stats also included class distinctions, or at least economic backgrounds.

Another thing I've been curious about is how many of the founders had student loans when they started the company. I'd bet that student loans hold a lot of people back. I just paid mine off last year.

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Post by forgotmysn »

It's cool that this batch is so international. I'm surprised to see companies from that many different regions. That said, I'm also really surprised, given how international this batch is, that there isn't a single Chinese company.

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Post by wenbin »

It would be great if it shows

* How many companies with only a single founder?

* How many companies are founded by people who are not native english speaker? I mean, an entire non english speaker team, e.g., all of them were born in Russia or China and came to US in a "late" age (e.g., after 22), instead of Canada, UK etc.

It would be more interesting if we can see a YC-funded company that is founded by a single founder who is not a native English speaker and came to US after 22 and he/she is now over 35 :) This somehow makes the game harder to play, but it would be challenging and fun and inspiring :)

The stereotype of a YC company is still multi-founder + at least one native english speaker + young. It will be certainly an outlier of outlier if there's ever a YC company that sets an inspiring example that single founder + non native english speaker + "old" can be accepted to YC and can succeed. Or we may need a YC-clone that is started in non-english-speaking countries or is started by a first-generation non-native-english-speaker immigrant in US.

Re: YC Summer 2017 Stats

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Post by koolba »

Interesting stats. I don't get this section though:

    UNDERREPRESENTED FOUNDERS
    S17 Female founders: 35 (12% of all S17 founders)
    S17 Applicants who were female: 14%
    S17 Companies with a female founder: 27 (21% of the batch)
    S17 Applications with a female founder: 22%
    
    S17 Black founders: 14 (4.76% of S17 founders)
    S17 Companies with a Black/Af-Am founder: 8 (6.25% of the batch)
    
    S17 Hispanic/Latinx founders: 13 (4.42% of S17 founders)
    S17 Companies with a Hispanic/Latinx founder: 7 (5.47% of the batch)
For females the percentage that were accepted is pretty close to the percentage that applied (21% vs 22%). So it seems like it would represent the applicant set.

Couple questions come to mind:

* For the black and hispanic stats, what were the percentage of the total applicants?

* Does the acceptance rate align with the application rate?

* Are the "% Applications with a ..." based on those that arrived at the office for an interview or total number of submissions?

* Are the stats self reported and if so optional or mandatory, or does someone at YC look at people to bucketize them?

Re: YC Summer 2017 Stats

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Post by kermittd »

buro9 wrote: post #2

It would be great if the underrepresentation stats also included class distinctions, or at least economic backgrounds.

Hmm, that's curious. I think about that a lot. I am both "diverse" in that I am biracial and "diverse" in the sense that I come from a poor uneducated family.

Note: I use diverse in quotes not because I don't believe it is important but because what diversity means to people varies dramatically.

Re: YC Summer 2017 Stats

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Post by katm »

koolba wrote: post #6

Interesting stats. I don't get this section though: UNDERREPRESENTED FOUNDERS S17 Female founders: 35 (12% of all S17 founders) S17 Applicants who were female: 14% S17 Companies with a female founder: 27 (21% of the batch) S17 Applications with a female founder: 22% S17 Black founders: 14 (4.76% of S17 founders) S17 Companies with a Black/Af-Am founder: 8 (6.25% of the batch) S17 Hispanic/Latinx founders: 13 (4.42% o…

* We ask for gender on our applications, but we haven't asked for race/ethnicity, which is why we don't have the answer to your first question.

* We see that it does for female founders.

* Total number of submissions

* Gender is reported in the applications. We asked founders in the batch to self-report for race/ethnicity.

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