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		neerkumar on Oct 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Y Combinator's Founding Principles It is so hard to actually get the VC business model. If in all these years, every single YC company had failed except for Airbnb, YC would still be 4X better than the second best competitor.

lultimouomo on Oct 3, 2017 [–]

To put the same fact in different words, if they had not invested on Airbnb and Dropbox, they would not be the leading incubator.

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