And the few that have gone public have done awful

https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...

Most of the bad ones IPOd in 2021, when there was a huge overvaluation of speculative tech companies... Marking performance since IPO is also a bit weird since it's kind of arbitrary date in the firm's history.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They have collectively had a return of -49% when the S&P 500 have had a return of 58%. It shows that all of the value went to the VCs and the public markets were the “bigger fools”.

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ViscountPenguin a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's surprising to me that investors have been so wrong about combinator IPOs. I wonder if this has been driven my retail, or by the expectation of a small probability of enormous success.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Oklo seems to have recovered thanks to the AI boom and they made a deal with Meta to deliver power fir their data centers. It looks like the best performing YC stock

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catlifeonmars a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Is going public the ultimate goal of every startup?

	▲	raw_anon_1111 a day ago \| parent [-]
		The goal of the startup doesn’t matter once they take VC funding. The goal of the investors is the exit - either via acquisition or going public. The most likely outcome is failure, the second most likely outcome is an acquisition. Going public is a distant third