YC is One of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies

http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2012/y-combinator

by BenS • 14 years ago

130 35 14 years ago

pg5• 14 years ago

Congrats also to Bump, Reddit, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Disqus!

hack_edu2• 14 years ago

I'm really curious what Bump brings to the table, at all, let alone what makes them worth the same breath as the rest of these companies.

It feels more like a trivial app put together on a hack weekend or Man Month than actual innovation.

pg5• 14 years ago

Have you used it?

bishnu• 14 years ago

The Occupy Movement is ranked #7. This article seems very linkbait-y.

gee_totes• 14 years ago

Since when is the Occupy Movement a company?

To quote the article: Occupy’s initial public offering, if you will, puts it in very good company.

If I will? No, actually, I think I will not.

noahr6• 14 years ago

Occupy has lots of things in common with startups, which we talk specifically about in the story. "Disruptive. Small-d democratic. Transparent. Tech savvy. Design savvy. Local and global."

The IPO part is a joke, sorry the humor was lost on you.

wr1472• 14 years ago

No mention of KhanAcademy under education?

noahr6• 14 years ago

Sal Khan is #7 on our Most Creative People In Business List from June: http://www.fastcompany.com/most-creative-people/2011/sal-kha...

benologist4• 14 years ago

This list seems like an odd mix of pandering, genuinely exciting companies, and companies that did something interesting years ago and rank for still existing.

noahr6• 14 years ago

Companies that have existed for years can still do innovative things. We've highlighted those new efforts in the entries. Jawbone, for example, has been around for ages but last year had a huge hit with the Jambox. In that entry Farhad Manjoo also writes about the Up, which was flying off shelves until they found a defect and pulled it.

corin_• 14 years ago

Would you mind explaining Reddit's inclusion in the same way? Certainly the write-up of Reddit in this piece doesn't seem to highlight anything new or innovative (unless campaigning against SOPA counts).

Cheers

(I feel slightly bad for picking upon Reddit, they were just the first example that came to mind when glancing at the list.)

andrewhillman• 14 years ago

YC is pretty remarkable and it starts at the top with PG. I also feel YC wouldn't be what it is today without HN as it extends the YC community just enough to make a huge difference... setting itself apart from the other accelerators. Congrats to all involved.

digitalboss• 14 years ago

My repost from FC.

Congrats and Thank you Paul - for helping out the passionate inventors push their ideas to the next level - what Paul has done to the startup community in the Bay Area, is what Jim Harbaugh did to the bay area for football :)

YC is One of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies

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