I've contacted founders who completely deleted that experience from their Linkedin and pretended they were never involved with the startup, others wanted to seek YC's permission or were charging a fee to speak with me...crazy
From my interviews, it seems like cofounder issues and product market fit are the most common reasons. Excited to speak with more founders to prove this point
that's a great question, yes, you can use the startup directory to run the stats on inactive startups. on average, every third startup fails
If you consider all batches, the average failure rate is 32%