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by edouard-harris
914 days ago
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> The entire purpose of starting a company is to get acquired. Certainly not in terms of expectation value. Most of the value of a startup at any given funding round is driven by the possibility of a public listing. This is true even though most successful startup outcomes are acquisitions. > Of the literally hundreds of companies that YC has invested in, only 5 have gone public. The correct number is 18, not 5. [1] [1] https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/valuation (select the "Public" tab.) |
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The best I could find is that YC has invested in 4000 companies..