[TigeriusKirk]

Asking because I have no idea - What companies were the big wins from Sam's YC time?

[ignoramous]

Flexport, Brex, Ginkgo, Rappi, Deel, Scale.ai, Rippling, Faire, OpenSea, Razorpay Checkr, Gitlab, Meesho, Monzo, Flock, Retool, IronClad, FlutterWave, Xendit Groww, Jeeves, Solugen, ShipBob, Front, Mux, TruePill, Jasper.ai ...

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=S19&batch=W19&ba...

[phillryu]

I'm surprised I don't recognize a single one of these companies. Isn't YC most famous for companies like AirBNB, Reddit, Twitch, Instacart, Dropbox, Doordash, etc. all things I use and that broke into pop culture? Or is that entirely from pre-Altman era and now it's just all tools for developers?

[king_magic]

Of those, literally the only one I’ve heard of is GitLab. Hard to imagine “ShipBob” is a “big win” for YC.

[startupsfail]

You’d need to consider baseline (wins/fails ratio) adjusted for macro conditions. And then look only at the subset of companies where Sam had impact.

A better way of looking at it would be to try analyzing the performance of Sam’s personal investments. And comparing it against a baseline (e.g. Sequoia or YC).

[derekjobst]

He became president of YC in 2014. So probably Cruise, W14.

[ben_jones]

Yeah Cruise has been killing lately

[jdoliner]

Gitlab is a big one.