Sridhar Ravichandran : Writings

Analyzing YC’s Top 100 Companies list by Vintage

I looked at the data YCombinator published recently and ran a quick analysis on it. I scraped it and parsed the data into a CSV, along with some of YC’s historical data. Link: http://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/

Charts (more below, after analysis):

Key insights:

* I am not sure if YC is including jobs created by the company prior to the investment being made, this might inflate the number.

Interesting questions to ask:

More charts: