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Abhilash Chowdhary writes Golden Pineapple, a personal blog at goldenpineapple.substack.com about startups and business. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “McKinsey Alumni Outperform Others in Founding VC-Backed Healthcare Startups”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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18mentions?
5HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as Substack analyses of ecommerce automation SaaS companies, US and Indian innovation, CHIPS Act effects on semiconductor firms, and US unicorn research. Comments are bare links with short descriptions.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Data driven insights on private high tech companies.

Most-linked posts?

  1. McKinsey Alumni Outperform Others in Founding VC-Backed Healthcare Startups
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-05
  2. Y Combinator's Elite: High-Growth US Startups of 2023
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Link to the full analysis https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/finding-the-next-klav...

    Comment linking /p/finding-the-next-klaviyo-usa-and

    on “Next Klaviyo – US and India Leading the Innovation in Ecommerce Automation SaaS”
  2. Submitted Tesla Mafia as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Link to detailed analysis https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/india-on-the-heels-of...

    Comment linking /p/india-on-the-heels-of-usa-in-defense

    on “India on the Heels of USA in Defense Manufacturing – Could It Outpace by 2030?”
  4. Submitted 6 out of top 10 YC-W23 companies are building apps on top of LLMs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Link to the article https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/chips-act-impact-50-o...

    Comment linking /p/chips-act-impact-50-of-fastest-growing

    on “CHIPS Act Impact: 50% of Fastest Growing Semiconductors Companies Are in the USA”
  6. Submitted Stanford Alumni 5x More Likely to Secure VC Funding Than Carnegie Mellon as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Here is the link to the full study https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/y-combinators-elite-h...

    Comment linking /p/y-combinators-elite-high-growth-us

    on “Fastest growing categories and companies across Y Combinator's portfolio in 2023”
  8. Submitted Is Creator Economy an emerging sector, or was it a fluke? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. You can read the full research (with some cool pictures & graphs) here https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/the-fastest-growing-c...

    Comment linking /p/the-fastest-growing-companies-of

    on “I studied over 200k+ private companies to find fastest growing ones in Q1 2024”
  10. Submitted Top Y Combinator S22 startups by monthly web traffic as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/mckinsey-employees-mo...

    Comment linking /p/mckinsey-employees-more-likely-to

    on “McKinsey Alumni Outperforms PhDs in Founding VC-Backed Healthcare Startups”
  12. Submitted 30% of Indian and Israeli VC backed startups set-up US HQ as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Messed up in sharing the link to analysis https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/mckinsey-employees-mo...

    Comment linking /p/mckinsey-employees-more-likely-to

    on “McKinsey Alumni Outperforms PhDs in Founding VC-Backed Healthcare Startups”
  14. Submitted Y Combinator's Elite: High-Growth US Startups of 2023 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. You can read the full research (with some cool pictures & graphs) https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/the-usas-next-unicorn...

    Comment linking /p/the-usas-next-unicorns

    on a deleted thread
  16. Submitted McKinsey Alumni Outperform Others in Founding VC-Backed Healthcare Startups as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/yc-w24-demo-day-which...

    Comment linking /p/yc-w24-demo-day-which-startups-are

    on a deleted thread
  18. Submitted Enterprise software and B2B:fastest growing SaaS categories in current downturn as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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