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by pg 5416 days ago
You can't count on that, because acquisitions are so unpredictable. In bad times they dry up entirely. YC was not in the black till December 2010, more than 5 years after we started.
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Sounds like it was Heroku's $212 million sale to Salesforce that pushed YC into the black. Though, I imagine if you also include on paper gains, you were in the black much earlier.
Actually it was either Zecter or Cloudkick. December was a big month.