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Tan: 70% to 80% of Startups Enter YC Unlaunched With Zero Revenue
“So, you know, these numbers fluctuate, but pretty much every time, 70 to 80% of the companies have no revenue, and, you know, probably 70 to 80% generally are unlaunched.”
Palantir, 8VC, and Y Combinator joined the New American Industrial Alliance
“Members include Palantir,
Eight VC, Y Combinator, Hadrian, Allen Control Systems, and many more.”
Hays: Y Combinator hires Ankit Gupta as Winter 2025 visiting partner
“Y Combinator just made a high-profile off-season pickup, bringing in Ankit Gupta as a visiting partner for their winter, 20, 25 batch.”
John Coogan's post-Y Combinator startup burned $3,000 monthly with three founders
“Cause when you're post YC, our burn rate was three K a month for three people.”
Hays: Next Y Combinator batch will see many crypto startup requests
“I think that I think next YC batch, I'm sure we'll see a lot of crypto company RF RF requests for startups.”
Coogan: Coinbase offered a 1 BTC referral bonus during YC Summer 2012
“In our YC batch, the referral bonus for going on Coinbase at the time was one Bitcoin.”
Hays: Michael Seibel quickly rejected Party Round from Y Combinator
“I interviewed there for party round back in the day with Michael Siebel and got a quick rejection. I don't think I fit even with like, we were already backed by Gradient, one of Google's funds and I just didn't fit the YC mold being non-technical myself.”