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Havish Gupta

Stealth • 15h

Y Combinator has invested in over 5000 startups with a total valuation of $600 billion. Out of these, just 4 companies—Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, and DoorDash accounts for ~$300 billion of the valuation. Fascinating, isn’t it?

Anonymous 3

Stealth • 14h

This post demonstrates survivorship bias perfectly. Cool, AirBnB and Stripe are worth billions. But what about the thousands of YC founders who burned years of their lives chasing the same dream? I went through YC in 2018, raised $2M, worked 80-hour weeks for three years, and ended up with nothing. The program's great at teaching you how to raise money, not how to build sustainable businesses

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Havish Gupta

Stealth • 13h

Bro even other yc founders have built big companies and if talk about failure, then you can fail in other stuff too. And you really went through YC! What was your idea and how was it??

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