🚀 Medial just raised $500k in Pre-Series A. Tap to read the announcement. 🎉

Download App

Home

Switch theme

Blog . Feedback . Privacy
Community Guidelines

Back to feeds

Havish Gupta

Stealth • 19h

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 • 17h

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

Havish Gupta

Stealth • 17h

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??

0 replies

Recommendations from Medial

Havish Gupta

Stealth • 4m

Learn how companies are using VR for Training and other stuff.

0 replies3 likes

Payal Manghnani

Stealth • 1m

Fail Faster to Succeed Sooner! Failure isn't the end; it's the beginning of your growth. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get. Each failure is a stepping stone to success. So why wait? Fail faster, l

2 replies3 likes

Pravesh Mourya

Stealth • 6m

Relevel by unacademy The concept was amazing of getting jobs from exam but what went wrong with them so they started selling courses and started malpractices for that One reason was that they were not getting partnered by companies What are the ot

0 replies2 likes

Havish Gupta

Stealth • 8m

Top YC Companies (1/20) Airbnb: It was started by Brian Chesky during the 2008 financial crisis with the idea to list extra space in our house for other people to stay in. Since after the financial crisis, when people had less to spend, this worked a

9 replies19 likes

tripyojan

Stealth • 5m

People who built great stuff and got users to use it. How did you market your stuff? Where did you get initial users?

4 replies2 likes

Ayush Maurya

Stealth • 26d

SAVE THIS : Learn from others failure; Why do most of the side project and SaaS fail ? Is it because of marketing lack of lack of MVP or PMF ? What's the reason ? Have you built any ? Share your experiences of building that ! Let others learn

6 replies3 likes

Anonymous

Stealth • 7m

1 Failure is a valuable learning experience When you fail, you have the opportunity to learn from your mistakes and figure out what went wrong. This has been something I've learned to embrace. Having this knowledge can help you make better decisions

0 replies3 likes

Giggity

Stealth • 9m

U guys must check out business casual on YouTube they talked about how companies were founded and the hardships founders went through it's quiet intresting. They made videos on jp Morgan, tata group,Ford and many more do check it out

2 replies7 likes

PRATHAM
•

Medial • 8d

Why do YC startups raise more money than others Because YC is the IIT of startups, and we all know how desi investors love a shiny "tagline" over actual substance. The moment you're YC-backed, VCs throw money at you Here’s why: 1. Branding Flex

5 replies15 likes

EdupreneurHub of Nav

Stealth • 1m

Journey of INDIA'S YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE FOUNDERS :- 1- The vision beyond Age🧠 •Success knows no age. These founders started young proving that innovation doesn't wait for experience. 2- From startups to unicorn 🦄 •These young founders didn't just

2 replies8 likes