Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator(twitter.com)
1350 points by btilly | 245 comments
An X (Twitter) post by Garry Tan marking Y Combinator's 20th birthday; the post content did not load in the capture.
#startup-accelerators on Hacker News
5 stories tagged startup-accelerators, newest first.
Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows(techcrunch.com)
342 points by isaacfrond | 171 comments
TechCrunch article reporting data showing Y Combinator frequently funds startups that compete directly with other YC companies, beyond just AI code editors.
Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth(unfashionable.blog)
416 points by SvenSchnieders | 191 comments
Blog post on the Unfashionable blog arguing that Y Combinator has traded its prestige for growth by expanding batch sizes.
Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator(newsletter.smallbets.co)
443 points by georgehill | 229 comments
Daniel Vassallo's Small Bets newsletter post arguing that joining Y Combinator is a bad deal for founders despite being good for the economy.
Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience(acecreamu.substack.com)
748 points by acecreamu | 294 comments
A founder's personal review of going through Y Combinator's W22 batch with his AI e-commerce startup Suggestr, weighing whether the equity cost was worth it.