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jaksmit on Oct 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Make Mistakes

"In this cycle we saw a +40% increase in the number of companies applying" — roughly how many applications were there? 1000? 10,000?

Also, how many teams make it to the interview stage?

drawkbox on Oct 29, 2014 [–]

Seconded, some metrics on this yearly would be great if at all possible. To give the applicants some sort of perspective.

In terms of the companies that make it, previous years the amount that make it in range up to 80 but they reduced it to 50 last year. 500 or so total YC companies since inception (2005).

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