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MAY 13, 2026

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Paul Graham just put a number on the post-YC geography decision — and the press missed it

Paul Graham disclosed on stage in Stockholm that YC internal data shows startups that go home after the batch are only half as likely to become unicorns, yet coverage of the talk led with the wrong sentence.