The Return Of The Repeat Founder: Inside YC’s Growing Class Of Second-Timers
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We analyzed a dataset of repeat founders who have gone through Y Combinator’s cohorts and found some very interesting insights. The dataset, shared with us directly from YC, consisted of 454 repeat founders through the program as well as 935 founder-company records spanning 2005 through 2026. We spoke to a couple of them about their experiences.
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- We analyzed a dataset of repeat founders who have gone through Y Combinator’s cohorts and found some very interesting insights.
- The dataset, shared with us directly from YC, consisted of 454 repeat founders through the program as well as 935 founder-company records spanning 2005 through 2026.
- We spoke to a couple of them about their experiences.
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