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_Marak_ on March 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

What would you personally consider a good failure percentage of YC backed companies?

Is http://yclist.com/ a valid source of data? If so, it seems like YC could be at the cusp of a large amount of DEAD companies starting from S10 to current.

sama on March 18, 2016 [–]

Maybe 40-50% outright failing? Much below that and it would feel like we weren't making enough risky bets.

No, it's pretty inaccurate.

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