His math also assumes you invest randomly in YC startups. Any angel who was paying attention ought to be able to narrow the field a lot, which would justify proportionally higher valuations.
His math also assumes you invest randomly in YC startups. Any angel who was paying attention ought to be able to narrow the field a lot, which would justify proportionally higher valuations.
Bottom line is that there is too much risk capital at play right now. Valuations are high and by definition returns on average are going to be low. For the mediocre and lower funds and investors they may be worse than low.
YC will do just fine. The good YC startups will do just fine, but the marginal angel investor is probably not making smart investments right now. Good time to be a startup raising seed and early stage but a bad time to be on the other side of that equation.
But I think it quite likely that many VCs will end up losing a lot of money on recent investments.
not an exit value, but certainly a much better approximation.