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Havish Gupta

Stealth • 11d

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?

Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 11d

Have you ever think why that happens?

Havish Gupta

Stealth • 11d

firstly because Only 1-2 companies can rule a industry (for eg qcom) and rest of the companies will either shut down and would not grow much. secondly most of the startups introduce a new concept and only few of the concepts work while others fail.

Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 11d

True, This happens due to the power-law effect in venture capital—where a small number of companies generate the majority of returns. Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, and DoorDash are market-defining giants, driven by scalability, network effects, and perfe

Havish Gupta

Stealth • 11d

Yup, btw how do you think can a fund eliminate most of the companies and just focus on those rare gems? like any quantitative ot qualitative metric you think that can help in filtering investments?

Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 11d

Question is good but for this i have to read and understand the systems made by y combinator for that filtration.

Havish Gupta

Stealth • 11d

yeah, it's not that easy question to answer. Lemme also use first principal thinking to get a suitable answer

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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 11d

Ok go

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