In 2014, Altman said the batch he was describing drew nearly 20% more applications than a year earlier, and that average application quality was strikingly higher than for any previous batch.
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Only YC's internal application counts and quality assessments could show this, although the application growth might be reported publicly.
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Sam Altman, “In 2014, Altman said the batch he was describing drew nearly 20% more applications than a year earlier, and that average application quality was strikingly higher than for any previous batch.” (said 2014). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_11cdcd90bf51, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_11cdcd90bf51
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