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You know what would be 10x as useful as this AND account for survivorship bias? If you did this same format but instead only talking to founders who failed one or even multiple times before eventually getting in. Then they could compare and contrast what they did wrong originally and how they corrected it. That would be much more useful to me, and wouldn't stink of survivorship issues.

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I would like to see a list of per-company YC outcomes vs. outcomes with traditional VCs. Is it worth “getting in?”, or is it just a low paying job with long hours, with nobody winning, on average, except YC itself?

I don't know about being in YC vs raising capital directly. But getting into a program like YC makes it significantly easier to raise money.

This series was intended to be an expose' on the patterns of those that got in, some on first try, most on their subsequent attempts. Nothing more, nothing less.

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