vaurn

1 - OK. 2 - Right. 3 - :) Hope it does end up that way. Follow up question: What percentage of applications for YC are super easy to reject? In the sense that they don't even make the basic cut?

http://yclist.com/ shows some companies as dead and some as exited - it is not updated regularly, so I would imagine there are quite a few more that are dead, and some that are dead after exit.

If possible, can you talk about what percentage of companies are dead from say all batches pre 2012?

Also, there are some companies on the list that baffle - as to the decision to invest in them like http://hoverchat.com from the last batch or http://www.chromaom.com from 2010. Do you really look at just founders and not the idea?

Finally the industries heavily represented in the entire list are data metrics, app related tools, and social communities or directories etc. There seems to be a huge dichotomy between this and https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/. Why is this?