Inspired by PG’s tweet about a chain of 4 YC startups where the founder worked at a YC startup, I vibe coded and generated these genealogy chains for all ~6k YC startups. And to make these trees easily accessible I packaged them into a hosted webapp.
Few noteworthy YC startups which have had huge impact in YC ecosystem
Airbnb - 83 YC startups spawned
Stripe - 67 YC startups spawned
Dropbox - 50 YC startups spawned
Justin.tv/Twitch - 47 YC startups spawned
More recently founded YC startups which have spawned a lot more YC startups
Rappi - 21 YC startups spawned
Brex - 20 YC startups spawned
Scale AI - 19 YC startups spawned
Few noteworthy YC startups which have had huge impact in YC ecosystem
Airbnb - 83 YC startups spawned
Stripe - 67 YC startups spawned
Dropbox - 50 YC startups spawned
Justin.tv/Twitch - 47 YC startups spawned
More recently founded YC startups which have spawned a lot more YC startups
Rappi - 21 YC startups spawned
Brex - 20 YC startups spawned
Scale AI - 19 YC startups spawned