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by jkincaid 5574 days ago
The other companies were "off the record". This is journalist lingo for stuff you can't write about. It's an agreement between YC and the press in attendance that they won't write about companies that don't want to be 'outed' as being part of YC (or haven't announced their existence at all).

Sure, someone could go and write about those companies anyway, but they wouldn't be invited back.