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Ilya Strebulaev

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Ilya Strebulaev

@IlyaStrebulaev

Finance Professor at @Stanford. Founder & Director, Venture Capital Initiative at @StanfordGSB. Startup financing, Silicon Valley, corporate innovation

Stanford

linkedin.com/in/ilyavcandpe/

Joined December 2021

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Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Jun 22
The 2026 ranking of the top 100 US VC firms is live. For years, every founder and LP has worked off the same mental shortlist of firms that "matter" — and never had a transparent, data-driven way to check it. Blake Jackson and I built one: the Strebulaev-Jackson Venture Ranking.
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Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Jan 13, 2022
Where Were Unicorn Founders Born? New result on immigrants & US economy For 1,078 founders of 500 US unicorns, I identified founders' countries of birth. Conclusion: Over four out of ten unicorn founders are first gen immigrants. @StanfordGSB #startups #immigration #unicorn
Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Jun 22, 2024
Universities in 🇫🇷France produced 46 US unicorn founders. 🥇 INSEAD leads with 10 unicorn founders. 🥈 Université Paris Dauphine, EPITA, ESCP Business School, HEC Paris each boast 3 unicorn founders. Did these results come as a surprise to you? #Education #entrepreneurship
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Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Jul 1, 2024
20 years at Stanford! On July 1st 2004 I came to Stanford as an assistant professor of finance. I still remember that first drive along Palm Drive! A big THANK YOU to all who made my life at Stanford special: my colleagues, my students, my friends, & my family! #stanford
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Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Jan 13, 2024
Startups associated with @uofcincy and @UUtah are >3 times more likely than average to become unicorns. @Yale and @VanderbiltU – twice as likely. Links to @universityofga, @Columbia, @BYU, @Stanford, @michiganstateu, @GeorgiaTech, @UCBerkeley or @UCSanDiego increase unicorn
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Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Feb 3, 2022
How Many Countries Have Produced Unicorn Founders? Out of >1K founders of US unicorns: ~half born outside the US. Here are all the countries. 65 (!) countries have “produced” at least 1 US unicorn founder. @StanfordGSB #unicorns #venturecapital #entrepreneurship #founders
Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Dec 27, 2021
How quickly do startups become unicorns? For a sample of 531 US unicorns, on average, it takes ~seven years for a startup to become a unicorn since founding. Three out of four companies became unicorns within nine years of their founding. @StanfordGSB Venture Capital Initiative
Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Jun 5, 2024
Israel Institute of Technology graduates are 25 times more likely to become a founder of US unicorn. Tsinghua and Reichman Universities are next with 11.3, followed by INSEAD, Ben Gurion and Tel Aviv Universities. #theventuremindset #israel #unicorns
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Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Feb 6, 2024
New research reveals that 458 non-US universities have produced at least one unicorn founder, and 45% of US-based VC-backed unicorns have at least one founder who studied or worked at a university outside the US. Check out the top non-US universities on the list! 🎓 #startup
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Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Jan 5, 2022
Thank you all for welcoming me to Twitter, especially my @stanford students! I checked the path of over 800 students who took my VC class at @StanfordGSB in 2013-2020. Amazing! Thanks to my amazing co-teachers, @brianjacobsvc and @tgr. #VentureCapital #startups @stanford
Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Feb 16, 2024
Curious about unicorn founders' former affiliations? IDF professionals stand out with 3x higher odds of founding a unicorn, topping our dataset. Other notable organizations: Livermore National Laboratory, US Air Force, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NASA. #founders #startups
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Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Oct 26, 2023
Stanford has 1.49 unicorn founders for every 1,000 undergrad students. @MIT (1.32) and @Harvard (0.97) follow. Other US universities with 10+ unicorn founders have an average ratio of 0.22. The average for all US universities is 0.03. #stanford #stanfordgsb #venturecapital
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Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Oct 13, 2022
Startup success is positively related to number of co-founders. Single-founder startups are 38% less likely to become a unicorn; 3/4-founder startups are 74% more likely. These striking results are from a large study on VC-backed startups. #VC #Stanford
Ilya Strebulaev
@IlyaStrebulaev
Aug 10, 2023
Which university in your country produced the highest number of US unicorn founders? Check out the list of the leading universities in 20 countries. Did your alma mater make the cut? 🏫 #startup #education #success #MBA
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