YCombinator companies still aren’t growing faster due to AI

A year ago I posted that YCombinator (YC) companies didn’t seem to be growing faster since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. I reran that experiment and found that 2023+ YC companies are arguably growing a bit faster than pre-2023 companies (including AfterQuery, YC’s fastest-ever unicorn), but the difference isn’t large relative to the underlying variance. It’s worth noting that YC has somewhat fallen from grace: the most valuable AI startups are generally not incubated by YC. Nonetheless, it’s i...