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Using the Golden Research Engine to Query the Y Combinator S19 Batch

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63 pointsjudegomila12 comments

The batch looks like it's full of established companies with polished products and big clients.

Wasn't YC about funding people before they even have a product?

Now that YC has deal flow from more established companies, it no longer needs to take the same kind of risk.

Also, it’s gotten substantially easier for a team of 1-2 to build a polished product on a shoestring budget than it was when YC originally started.

The claims of big customers are likely mostly exaggerated—product-market fit is as difficult to achieve as ever.

How is this different from AirTable or any other of the dozen of online spreadsheet tools? Just looks like an auto-aggregated table.

Serious question: Where's the "research" here? Sorry, not trying to be antagonistic, just not seeing what's new here.

YC is really operating at scale now!!

Thanks, Jude! From a quick scan, it seems there are quite a few companies in direct competition--particularly in: 1) incoming sharing education, 2) bespoke computer processors, 3) medical billing, and 4) recruiting software.

Where are you seeing the YC companies building computer processors?

This is one that I came across in that list: https://www.tensil.ai/ there are probably more judging by parent comment

Tensil.ai and Vorticity.xyz. If they are not both on Golden's list (I'm on mobile right now so cannot easily check), they can be found on YC's companies page. Ycombinator.com/companies

Good observation! I don't think any of the ISA companies were direct competitors, but the number of companies that planned to earn revenue with ISAs this batch was super interesting to me.

In this batch, Juno College of Technology and Microverse both teach coding using income sharing agreements. Of course, from previous batches, Lambda School and Modern Labor are coding schools that charge via income sharing.

off-topic, @glennon, I remember you compiled a list of all YC companies under github/investor-school before their official launches on demo days. Was expecting similar for YC S19. Not doing it this time?

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