Companies with a female founder: 25 (21.93%)
Companies with a Black founder: 9 (7.89%)
Companies with a Hispanic founder: 6 (5.26%)
For example, say X% of the people are female, etc.
> As a side note, even though it will break backwards compatibility, we are considering changing how we look at this to the percentage of all founders that are women instead of the percentage of companies with a female founder.
http://blog.ycombinator.com/diversity-and-startups
After being told by dozens of people how obviously misleading this statistic is. It was beneath YC to ever release such a phony stat, but it's downright unethical to continue propagating it.
YC has no obligation to share stats and just because you disagree with the methodology doesn't make them unethical.
The fact is that this stat is provably misleading. People are understanding, and reporting it as, "25% of YC founders are female" when the reality is very different. YC knows about this and yet continues to use it. I think it's an understandable and small lapse in ethics predictably justified by some weak rationalization.