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title: "No Disclosed YC Company Circular Revenue"
description: "We searched all YC companies since 2020 for circular revenue contracts/disclosures and found none. So as far as we know, the meme that YC companies are just booking each other as revenue is false."
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published_at: "2026-07-11T00:00:00.000Z"
authors: []
section: "Null result"
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# No Disclosed YC Company Circular Revenue

> We searched all YC companies since 2020 for circular revenue contracts/disclosures and found none. So as far as we know, the meme that YC companies are just booking each other as revenue is false.

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## Claim — We searched all YC companies since 2020 for circular revenue contracts/disclosures and found none. So as far as we know, the meme that YC companies are just booking each other as revenue is false.

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> We searched all YC companies since 2020 for circular revenue contracts/disclosures and found none. So as far as we know, the meme that YC companies are just booking each other as revenue is false.

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We searched all YC companies since 2020 for circular revenue contracts/disclosures and found none. So as far as we know, the meme that YC companies are just booking each other as revenue is false.

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