[echan00]

I think the problem with your request is that there are way too many failed startup stories.

[100k]

She could take a look at the most hyped startups of 2008 (when the book was published) and see where they are now. Most will probably have failed by now, and there will be some interesting stories there!

[27182818284]

As I sit here wearing a Pebble watch, I'd certainly like to know more about that collapse.

[weston]

She could also focus specifically on YC companies and their success and/or failure stories.

[eegilbert]

Perhaps. Although you could apply something like matching techniques [1] to find startups comparable to the big successes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_(statistics)