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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