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majewsky on Dec 6, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Y Combinator Database

That information would likely be useless because of survivorship bias.

vasilipupkin on Dec 7, 2018 [–]

no, it wouldn't be useless. Firstly, bias alone doesn't make information useless. Secondly, how is it survivor bias if the dataset also includes failed ycombinator companies?

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