“It’s not just the number one or two companies—the whole batch is growing 10% week on week,”
YC makes all startups in the batch report KPIs even from before being accepted into the batch, If you participate in their Startup School, you are asked to track and report weekly numbers, such as number of users.
Paul Graham posts unlabeled charts from YC startups everynow and then, so I assume the aggregate of all of these is what Garry Tan is refering to. Unfortunately, it is not possible to reproduce his analysis. But we should see the effect with the next round of exits. They should happen faster or at higher valuations compared to previous batches.
YC makes all startups in the batch report KPIs even from before being accepted into the batch, If you participate in their Startup School, you are asked to track and report weekly numbers, such as number of users.
Paul Graham posts unlabeled charts from YC startups every now and then, so I assume the aggregate of all of these is what Garry Tan is refering to. Unfortunately, it is not possible to reproduce his analysis. But we should see the effect with the next round of exits. They should happen faster or at higher valuations compared to previous batches.