I’ve settled on calling what I’ve been writing about the “Incubator Industry” since it’s catchy and captures my intent to describe the group of companies that help create other companies. Like I mentioned in my last post, Y Combinator is an accelerator, so it grow already existing startups and invests in them. It gets a lot of attention, but for good reason! Started in 2005, it was the first company to achieve great success with selecting startups, scaling them up through mentoring and investments, and then profiting when the startup became profitable. It has helped bring us household names such as AirBnB, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, Dropbox, Twitch, and Reddit, and these are just the most well-known of the thousands of other companies they have helped launch.
Y Combinator and its Suppliers
Y Combinator and its Suppliers
Y Combinator and its Suppliers
I’ve settled on calling what I’ve been writing about the “Incubator Industry” since it’s catchy and captures my intent to describe the group of companies that help create other companies. Like I mentioned in my last post, Y Combinator is an accelerator, so it grow already existing startups and invests in them. It gets a lot of attention, but for good reason! Started in 2005, it was the first company to achieve great success with selecting startups, scaling them up through mentoring and investments, and then profiting when the startup became profitable. It has helped bring us household names such as AirBnB, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, Dropbox, Twitch, and Reddit, and these are just the most well-known of the thousands of other companies they have helped launch.