Silicon Valley's Top Startup Factory Once Funded A Company Because The Founder Looked Like Mark Zuckerberg
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Storage startup Dropbox is valued at $4 billion, and home rental site Airbnb is valued at around $2.5 billion. The value of YC's portfolio is approaching $10 billion and many of its companies have also had clean exits. Think Heroku, OMGPOP, and Reddit. The average value of a YC-backed company is $22.4 million.
But Graham doesn't always have the best judgment when selecting startups to participate in YC. In a lengthy profile of YC on The New York Times, Graham revealed that he has his own biases.
"I can be tricked by anyone who looks like
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