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Puri: YC's hit rate increased despite larger batch sizes
“A lot of people now think that they're, you know, maybe they've sort of lost their touch, or the batch size are too big, or the valuation is too high, and actually their hit rate has gone up, even as the batch size has gone up.”
Mah: Most startups in my Y Combinator batch went bankrupt
“If we look back today, most of the companies from that batch did not make it. Most of them went BK and then people took normal jobs or started new companies and then eventually found success.”
Virgin committed to buying 10 Boom planes the night before YC Demo
“In that extra 24 hours, he ends up getting an email from Virgin the night before Demo Day that says, you're allowed to announce, we'll take the first 10 planes, we've got options on them, and through Virgin Galactic, we'll even help you build it.”
Puri: Y Combinator returned 320x in its first decade
“The first 10 years of YC, they basically turned like something like twelve million dollars Into, like, ten billion dollars of value for them, from themselves, because they were writing super small checks early on and getting basically, like, was seven percent?…”
Puri: Y Combinator asks how applicants gamed real-world systems
“One of the seven questions is, tell us about a real world system that you've hacked for your benefit, right? Not, not literally hacked, but like any real, any system in the real world that you have sort of gamed in order to do it, because that's a high predict…”
Puri: Stripe founders manually onboarded their first 100 to 200 customers
“As soon as somebody showed any sign of interest, they would say, awesome. Do you have your laptop on you? I can just set you up right now. I'll do it for you. And they would literally brute force get customers on board. The person would open up their laptop an…”