Yes, but what would have sales been if they hadn't used unlicensed brokers?
Then the day comes when you need to become above board and someone has to be the fall guy. The important question here is not what the press release says but the money being paid....
Knowing when to sell and when to hold is a very tricky decision, plenty of people don't know what call to make and end up riding their companies all the way into the abyss. If you've done considerably better then maybe it's time you told the story, if you didn't admit you're jealous and get over it.
But that goes to the original problem: YC participation is advertised as a way to make money beyond your wildest dreams, but the only people who can actually expect to do that are investors. So many good and competent founders fail that even a modest success is enough qualification to lead YC; at the same time, the fact that so many good and competent founders fail is so taboo that pointing out that YC's president was only modestly successful looks like an insult.
And, to bring this back on topic, it is more-or-less this taboo that compels companies like Zenefits to prioritize stupendous growth over complying with the law. They could have grown cautiously and still made well over a 10% RoI, but they wanted to gamble harder.
Investing in, founding, and leading a company are three different skillsets. The best founding CEOs usually are not venture capitalists; you don't see Larry Page, Elon Musk, or Steve Jobs wishing they were investors. Similarly, it's possible to be a good founder and terrible leader (eg. Parker Conrad, Pierre Omidyar), or a good leader but incapable of founding something (Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg) or a mediocre founder but excellent investor (Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Eugene Kleiner, Don Valentine).