Company Quote by Sam Altman

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

— Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they…

— Sam Altman

“for those organizations that provided a stock ticker symbol, we found that high performers had 50% higher market capitalization growth over three years. They…

— Gene Kim

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

— Amar Bose

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people…

— Sam Altman

The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of a company…

— Wayne Huizenga

I joined YC to recover from the brain damage of starting companies.

— Justin Kan

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

— Sam Altman

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits…

— Peter Cundill

One of the most fun and interesting things about YC is that we are kind of a startup ourselves. We are constantly changing and…

— Michael Seibel

“Since it is all based on statistics, the size of the company’s database is the key to making accurate predictions”

— Yuval Noah Harari

In our industry today only a strong company with a global reach can ensure long-term employment and provide acceptable returns for shareholders.

— Lakshmi