Ask PG: Which companies did YC pass up on but became successful later?

This gets asked a lot and won't get answered. The typical response is that they don't answer because it would violate the privacy of some of these founders/companies that may not wish it known they got rejected or even applied. If the founders want to share that they will, otherwise it's best left alone. Also companies may have the same founders/names but may have pivoted a lot or gone in a different direction so it could be a completely new company.

You don't have to ask PG for that. Im running a very successful company YC didn't run with. We are dominating out niche and making money doing it.

This comes up every month, at least :)

This is something that you could google. No need to ask on here.

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