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		netcan on March 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Appr... Is there an estimate of how long YC needs in order to become self sufficient?

pg on March 17, 2009 [–]

It would be very hard to guess, because it all depends on accidents of liquidity.

netcan on March 17, 2009 | [–]

Isn't that were numbers start to kick in?

60 per round @ 10 years is 1200 startups?

Actually, that brings up a completely different question: Can YC scale to the point where you can't remember most of the names anymore?

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