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DEMO DATASET · 100 YC COMPANIES
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Portfolio overview

A power-law lens on venture outcomes, growth quality, and founder patterns.

Companies tracked100YC examples · demo universe
Modeled portfolio value$18.4B↑ 41.8% weighted YoY
Top 5 concentration76.2%Power law signal
Modeled gross MOIC23.6×vs. 1× invested capital

Portfolio value follows a power law

Illustrative mark-to-market value by company rank · log scale

Value Median
Rank 1Top 1 = $9.8BRank 100

Outcome distribution

Modeled current status

Hockey-stick growth monitor

Indexed cohort growth across common venture metrics

Growth is normalized to 100 at month 0. Curves are synthetic teaching data, not reported company figures.

Investment memo signals

What the distribution is saying

01
Power law dominates

18 companies account for 92% of modeled value. Median outcome is not representative of portfolio return.

02
Repeat founders over-index

31% of the universe are repeat founders; 58% of modeled top-decile value comes from this group.

03
Beware the survivor bias

Attributes are inferred from winners and public narratives. They are hypotheses, not causal scores.