15 out of 30 companies featured by Forbes did Y Combinator

40 points·dsiroker··5 comments

Source: http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30_tech.html and http://yclist.com/

Companies:

Branch

eBay

Peek

x Airbnb

x Pathjoy

x Stripe

Revel

x Chart.io

x MemSQL

Kaggle

x Hipmunk

x Cue

x FiveStars

x Dropbox

Box

x Funders Club

Asana

x Reddit

Clever Sense

x Zenpayroll

Learnup

Facebook

x Weebly

Intern Sushi

Radius Intelligence

x Codecademy

x Optimizely

Google

Github

Facebook

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And Geoff Ralston reports that 6 of 30 in the education category did Imagine K12, which is all the more impressive since that category includes nonprofits as well.

You guys missed Instacart :)

http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-und...

Could it just be lazy journalism?

I don't think it's lazy journalism, it's just how the PR world works. YC gives people credibility and a soapbox. It's probably one of the greatest benefits at this time.

Also, consider the source is forbes, this isn't the top 30 technologists under 30, or scientists, it's top 30 technology entrepreneurs under 30.

Sure there are many who probably deserve to be on this list and aren't, but how would they be found.

Do you have any suggestions on who you'd like to see on the list?

The Muse (themuse.com) did YC W '12 and was Forbes 30-under-30 in Media, plus also Amicus in Social Entrepreneurship, and Mixpanel, tracks.by and Emmett Shear in Games & Apps. Way to represent

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