Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedAnu Hariharan: evaluation
12 May 2022 Acquired Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity
“One of the partners that YC kept funding DoorDash, because nobody believed in the idea.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Anu Hariharan
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 12 May 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…You're already approaching the scale where you're like a liberal arts college at this point, where you're graduating that many number of companies. Our acceptance rate is still below 3%, but yes. Our acceptance rate has only decreased. I think this is why I think it's very hard to compare YC to a venture fund. If you look at the types of opportunities we've given people in different parts of the world, they would not have stood a chance anywhere else. That was true for Airbnb. That was true for Coinbase. That was true for DoorDash. One of the partners that YC kept funding DoorDash, because nobody believed in the idea. It was the third food delivery startup that came out when they came. Rappi.…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.