Organization
Y Combinator
Startup accelerator that provides funding and mentorship to early-stage companies.
Y Combinator
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Mentioned In5
- Jessica LivingstonThe social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon
- Brian CheskyBrian Chesky’s new playbook
- Tobi LütkeTobi Lütke's leadership playbook: First principles, infinite games, and maximizing human potential
- Sachin MongaBuilding Substack
- Jeff WeinsteinBuilding product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession
Transcript mentions
… The way I think about this, people always talk about Y Combinator and Stanford and all these places that create all these companies and founders. If you think about it, Shopify does this orders of magnitude beyond, ...
I had worked on Stripe payments for a while, and I had just started on Atlas, and I think that same month AngelList announced that they were doing incorporation and banking and cap table all together, which was exactly what I wanted to do.…
… were sort of two moments that I remember I felt like YC was working, because remember, we started Y Combinator as 100% like an experiment. Could we fund younger founders with small amounts of money?
… (01:04:13): Before Y Combinator, there was a person named Michael Seibel. He's in Y Combinator.
… We did a thing at an all-hands a little while ago where Substack went through Y Combinator I think it was maybe now six years ago and we watched the 60 second demo they pitched from 2017.
Company
Y Combinator
Startup accelerator that provides funding and mentorship to early-stage companies.
Mentioned In5
- Jessica LivingstonThe social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon
- Brian CheskyBrian Chesky’s new playbook
- Tobi LütkeTobi Lütke's leadership playbook: First principles, infinite games, and maximizing human potential
- Sachin MongaBuilding Substack
- Jeff WeinsteinBuilding product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession
Transcript mentions
… The way I think about this, people always talk about Y Combinator and Stanford and all these places that create all these companies and founders. If you think about it, Shopify does this orders of magnitude beyond, ...
I had worked on Stripe payments for a while, and I had just started on Atlas, and I think that same month AngelList announced that they were doing incorporation and banking and cap table all together, which was exactly what I wanted to do.…
… were sort of two moments that I remember I felt like YC was working, because remember, we started Y Combinator as 100% like an experiment. Could we fund younger founders with small amounts of money?
… (01:04:13): Before Y Combinator, there was a person named Michael Seibel. He's in Y Combinator.
… We did a thing at an all-hands a little while ago where Substack went through Y Combinator I think it was maybe now six years ago and we watched the 60 second demo they pitched from 2017.