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I'm thinking the single biggest change is that YC is going to land a Zynga or Groupon: a company whose meteoric rise to hundreds of millions in revenue and profit makes headlines, shakes industries, and will include "funded by YC" in every one of the numerous news pieces about it.

Who knows, it might have already happened, and we just don't know about it because they're still on the flat part of the hockey stick.

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great thought here, they have definitely made some good bets and Heroku was probably just the tip of the iceberg, IMHO Dropbox is the one to watch of the older companies right now, I think there are several others that have large exit potential, Indinero, Carwoo, notifo, hipmunk and so on and so forth.

There are a few glimpses of what the future holds for YC but I think most of us can agree, it's pretty damn bright

Airbnb is a potential industry changer

Heroku's acquisition almost seemed like it approached that magnitude, from a valuation perspective.

Heroku is a much, much bigger company than anything I have ever done or aspire to do, and everybody even remotely connected to it should be justifiably proud, but it is not within an order of magnitude of either Zynga or Groupon. Either could have done that acquisition out of their free cash flow, and it would probably have been less than they spent on advertising in the next N months.

Interesting that you chose Zynga or Groupon and not Facebook or Google. I think it's the latter YC is looking out for more than the former.

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