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Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:07 Jason Lemkin Um, look, it has to be Y Combinator. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:32 Jason Lemkin I mean, there's going to be what for hunt with taking this back to earlier in the conversation, how many YC companies are there a year? 2 times in the scene
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:56 Sanjit Biswas The other piece was we were bootstrapped, but we were kind of, I guess, ramen profitable would be like the YC or Paul Graham phrase.
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:28 Mike Shebat And then before people could stop clapping, I switched to the next slide, which is basically like why most Y Combinator startups that graduate Y Combinator end up not making it.
- ▶ 40:25 Keith Rabois Or why see founders?
- ▶ 1:00:07 Keith Rabois Um, and I met them in YC office hours and I knew they were special.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:26 Matteo Franceschetti So I tell you this story that very few people know, but it was immediately after YC, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:49 Matteo Franceschetti There were a lot of campaigns on Indiegogo and other platforms, and so a lot of investors immediately after YC 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:03 Matteo Franceschetti There was actually this point that, you know, they taught us at YC where they, if you were going to the YC partners during the YC program saying, oh, I'm going to launch, I don't know, this website in 30 days.
Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13 Harry Stebbings Liveflow helps finance teams at Y Combinator, OpenPhone, Landing AI, and thousands more forward-thinking companies to turn their spreadsheets into a real-time FP&A platform.
- ▶ 54:32 Harry Stebbings Liveflow helps finance teams at Y Combinator, Open Phone, Landing AI, and thousands more forward-thinking companies to turn their spreadsheets into a real-time FP&A platform.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:14 Jason Lemkin There are a couple of brands, and there's more brands now, and Andreessen and YC changed the notion of brand.
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:34 Nick Tomaino And at the time this, you know, they came out of Y Combinator, but they, it wasn't a hot deal at all.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:56 Harry Stebbings YC and early Sequoia rounds.
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:19 Matthieu Rouif Actually, I think YC say, like, we were one of the, they never saw a company growing that fast, like, with this much capital, so this, this low capital, so indeed it's quite uncommon.
- ▶ 51:33 Harry Stebbings How impactful was YC? 7 times in the scene
20VC: NEW FORMAT: Harry Stebbings on Why Seed Pricing is as High as Ever, Why Series A is the Best Place to Invest Today, Why Growth Founders Need to Reshape Expectations, Why M&A Windows Remain Shut and When Will IPO Windows Crack Open
- ▶ 13:15 Harry Stebbings I think a great example of that would be Y Combinator, which clearly and most tangibly has that mechanism to do those three things better than many others in the early stage ecosystem.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:33 Matthew Prince And then we, we, we actually, for, um, Paul Graham, who's someone a lot of your, uh, listeners will know, um, Paul, before he started Y Combinator, um, would host a, a conference at, at MIT called the MIT Anti-Spam Conference, and he would…
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings So I want to start, and I want to kick off with, it's a new world of seed, and I've been speaking to a lot of LPs, particularly investing in seed funds, and when we look at thirty million posts for YC rounds, the simple question that I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:00 Mike Maples I had this conversation a couple of years back with Michael Seibel at YC. 2 times in the scene
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:46 Harry Stebbings Does it favor Airtable or the, you know, AI first Airtable from two months ago in YC?
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:37 Harry Stebbings You've written that clubby seed investing and the YC playbook will certainly not work anymore. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:29 Frank Rotman Look, I mean, YC has a track record. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:59 Jason Lemkin I am grateful for YC for a couple of reasons, but one thing is I like to only invest in outsiders and first time CEOs on a two by two outsider, first time CEO over time. 6 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:11 Jason Lemkin If you didn't come out of Stripe, come out of YC or have traction. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:44 Jason Lemkin The ones that, that, that they couldn't raise the A, 14 months after the seed, it took 24 months, but then hit the number, being disciplined, picking over YC a year afterwards rather than a month before.
- ▶ 40:54 Jason Lemkin Or Estonia or Paris and no, nobody, but you didn't even get to go through YC, you know, nobody.
- ▶ 48:06 Jason Lemkin Every YC company in every batch, they may not all get funded, but there is enough capital to fully fund all at 20 post that only takes what's 200,000,002 million, that takes four hundred million to fully fund a YC batch. 2 times in the scene
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:16 Shu Nyatta Rappi is one of the largest contributors to Y Combinator in terms of alumni. 3 times in the scene
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:05 Harry Stebbings But you've seen the unbundling of accelerators with YC. 4 times in the scene
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:39 Harry Stebbings Do you know, I think, like, YC have done this the best. 2 times in the scene
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:37 Alex Lebrun Then you can, you know, in, in, in, in a startup, you know, in YC, in all startup schools in the world, they tell you, don't start with a solution, start with a problem.
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli: The Funding Market Today; Last-Mile Delivery; Competing w/ Carta | E1005 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:30 Avlok Kohli Uh, there, there's actually this great quote, I think it's from YC, but it may be from somewhere else where startups die of suicide, not homicide.
Mark Goldberger: The Ultimate Guide to Enterprise Sales | E1003 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:13 Mark Goldberger I, I know you spoke to, uh, to a founder of a YC company who, who I mentor.
Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:26 Rob Lacher I mean, I think on the extreme, um, either you run the Y combinator seed kind of model where you're just, um, basically building a broad portfolio and the likelihood to have like one or two of those amazing.
Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:08 Mike Maples And then I, I asked him, okay, at YC, um, how about you?
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:43 Mike Duboe And so shortly after, when I learned about this YC company, Tilt, 2 times in the scene
Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:27 Alex Bouaziz If you look at what we got into Y Combinator in 2018 with the idea we started, um, the concept was very similar, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:15 Alex Bouaziz I mean, this is something we got very early on at the company, maybe even from YC, where we just always looked at our week on week, month on month growth, and it had to be like really, really good.
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:44 Jason Lemkin Crafted weird space that maybe YC has disrupted, but no one else has.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:07 Jason Lemkin And, um, they had come out of Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:04 Jason Lemkin It's YC batch, but it was, it was probably in whatever the top, the hotter group, but it was not the top one, right?
- ▶ 1:10:20 Jason Lemkin Everyone liked him, but you could, you could see the hunger coming out of his pores when I first met him at YC Demo Days.
Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:29 Brian Singerman And started doing startup investing on the side there in 2006, 2007, investing in a whole bunch of Y Combinator companies when Y Combinator was still brand new. 2 times in the scene
Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:32 Harry Stebbings Great example of this would be a Y Combinator on the very early stage, a Sequoia on the very early stage with their innovations around scout programs around arc.
- ▶ 28:04 Kyle Harrison I look at Y Combinator and there's no question that they've built a generational community. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:24 Harry Stebbings I do just want to ask one final thing on the communities that I, I agree on like the YC of the world, but like that's one very distinct. 7 times in the scene
Fivetran's Lauren Schwartz: Must-Ask Questions to Identify Potential Sales Talent | 20VC #939 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:44 Lauren Schwartz Your YC cohort or whatever community you've built, um, of founders to, to introduce you, right?
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:37 Harry Stebbings Adam, before the show, and he told me that the YC story is the ultimate story of hustle, and that I had to discuss it. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:28 Drew Houston I'm like 300 years old in Y Combinator founder years, but.
- ▶ 41:40 Drew Houston Well, we had a very, as I said, our whole road into Y Combinator was kind of strange. 2 times in the scene
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:04 Tristan Handy You know, from Y Combinator, like, if you're not growing your user base 10% every single week, then like,
Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:55 Geoff Lewis The hottest company in their Y Combinator batch at the time.
David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:48 David Lieb And we had heard of this thing called Y Combinator, uh, which was like this nascent, like startup incubator thing, uh, when we applied to it on a whim and we got in and we came out to California that summer to like work on our startup.
- ▶ 12:54 David Lieb So I decided to leave and join YC.
- ▶ 12:56 Harry Stebbings And I mean, what an exciting time I had with YC, and um, and thank you also for sharing that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:48 Harry Stebbings Everything else, if I'm a YC company and I'm coming to you, is there anything else to say? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:11 David Lieb He's now a YC founder.
- ▶ 50:00 Harry Stebbings Again, think of me as like a early stage YC company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:42 David Lieb Like I'm about to join YC. 2 times in the scene
dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:57 Sebastian Kanovich There, there, there was, it's not that we had a Y Combinator and five other VCs waiting to give us money.
Kieran Flanagan: Hiring Tips for Growth; North Star Metrics; Hubspot's Mistake | 20VC #916 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:57 Harry Stebbings We see this with Y Combinator, for example.
Cambly CEO Sameer Shariff: Why I Raised $60M and Didn't Touch a Dollar | 20VC #914 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:51 Sameer Shariff Uh, you know, I was really fortunate, you know, my time at Google, I worked at another startup after Google, then I did Y Combinator.
Kirsten Green: The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM | 20VC #912 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:30 Harry Stebbings In terms of that communication, I spoke to Anu at YC before this, and she said you're on the fair board together, and she said you are one of the best she's ever worked with in terms of giving great and constructive feedback the right way,…
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:51 Des Traynor Whereas like a Y combinator startup would just eek away one feature at a time.
Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:58 Daniel Yanisse So in, in the early days, um, I was following the, the Y Combinator playbook, um, that says, uh, you know, higher, slow, fire, fast.
HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:32 Dharmesh Shah So let's say it's like three days before YC Demo Day, and I send a, I come across the company and it's like, oh, this is interesting.
Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:25 Ruchi Sanghvi It just basically means that we originate deals, um, and the community is high quality enough to keep, make that a sustainable motion, and we're even further upstream than, let's say, uh, YC.
Q-Commerce in Emerging Markets with the CEOs of Airlift, JOKR, & Zepto | 20VC #892 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:33 Aadit Palicha And we, um, you know, it was Y Combinator.
- ▶ 13:32 Usman Gul And, uh, I did obviously, you know, has spent a lot of time at Y Combinator.
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:05 Harry Stebbings I see the, you know, justice system, but then I also see things like YC now being fully remote.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 27:59 Jason Lemkin I'm just talking about great folks that didn't come out of Facebook, Twitter, Y Combinator.
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 33:57 Harry Stebbings Is the most obvious opportunity not a Y Combinator token? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings To date, Grant has raised over two hundred and twenty-five million dollars for WhatNot from the likes of Capital G, A-sixteen Z, YC, Scribble Ventures, and Wonder Ventures, to name a 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:08 Grant LaFontaine You know, I strongly adhere to kind of like YC's principle of build something people want, and so it just all flows from users.
20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings This company is such a special company, recommended by two of my favorite people, the amazing Ravi Gupta at Sequoia and Anu Hariharan at YC.
20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 20:08 Roger Ehrenberg Kind of environment, especially for those companies that didn't come out of YC or some, you know, go-go seed round that looks like a series A where they've got six to ten million dollars on the balance sheet and their pre-product market…
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:04 Chris Sacca It was more like what we saw with Y Combinator in oh five, is that it used to cost millions of dollars to write your first line of code.
- ▶ 59:43 Chris Sacca And this is because I've done, I did YC deals back in the day where I'd put 25 grand in
20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- ▶ 4:47 Devin Finzer And that was the idea that we got into Y Combinator with, but we ended up sort of being more interested in this early sort of more mainstream use case for crypto, which was really pioneered by CryptoKitties, which was one of the first NFTs.
- ▶ 10:12 Harry Stebbings But as I said, I spoke to Alexis Ohanian before the show, and he suggested that I ask a question around YC Demo Day. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 44:43 Chris Sacca What we saw with Y Combinator in oh five is that it used to cost millions of dollars to write your first line of code.
- ▶ 54:00 Chris Sacca And this is because I did YC deals back in the day where I'd put 25 grand in, and I'd sell the company for, you know, fifteen million dollars.
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 11:20 Keith Rabois So Eric had, you know, invested in real estate before he had started a company in real estate using data in real estate that I've actually funded out of Y Combinator as an angel.
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 36:09 Laela Sturdy Like you look at most of the companies coming out of YC, lots of different places are built on top of Webflow because you can build amazing websites with great functionality, much quicker and much easier than you could in the past.
20VC: Ramp's Eric Glyman on Why You Should Never Take The Highest Price, Working With Venture Funds vs Crossover Funds and How To Determine What To Buy vs Build as a Founder Today?
- ▶ 11:15 Eric Glyman Why Combinator made famous?
20VC: MercadoLibre Founder Marcos Galperin on Optimising Decision-Making, Effective Resource Allocation, Growth vs Profitability, Fundraising Strategies and more on the Journey To Build a $72Bn Market Cap Company
- ▶ 22:15 Marcos Galperin You also need companies like Y Combinator.
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 3:07 Peter Reinhardt We left school and decided to do Y Combinator, and we, we got into Y Combinator with this idea for a classroom lecture tool, and the idea was to give students this button to push to say, I'm confused, and the professor would see this graph… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:42 Peter Reinhardt Yeah, actually the founders that I'm most impressed by and how they handled that were actually the Codecademy founders who were in our batch of Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Peter Reinhardt I came into it with, like, a lot of pride about what I achieved in the first part of my life of going to MIT and getting into YC and all these things, and I was like, oh, well, like, here's how I think the world should work in terms of…
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings As I mentioned, post-YC in 2012, Wade raised 1.4 million dollars for the company from Bessemer and Threshold, but since that round, he's scaled the company to a hundred and forty million in ARR and a five billion dollar valuation without…
20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings From the likes of Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank, DST, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, and more. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 Harry Stebbings And, you know, I spoke to Anu before the show from YC, and she said no, and she meant it nicely, no one thought Racky could raise this much capital sitting in LATAM.
- ▶ 20:10 Simon Borrero So in terms of the other guys, I don't, because for Latin Americans, like, we had a culture that we always were thinking that Americans or Asians or everyone was smarter people, but when we went to California and we worked with other YC…
20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
- ▶ 5:21 Alfred Lin So a few of us were doing office hours at YC.
20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings David has raised over sixty-nine million dollars with Retool from some of the very best in startups, including Sequoia, YC, Patrick and John from Stripe, Henrique and Pedro at Brex, Paul Graham, Nat at GitHub,
- ▶ 4:53 David Hsu It actually got a bunch of users, and we actually got into YC doing that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 David Hsu John Collison from Stripe was offering some office hours to YC companies, and this must have been maybe March, maybe April, something like that, of 2017.
- ▶ 9:45 Harry Stebbings Having access to John, and having access to that kind of mentorship, I guess, in the early days, you know, came through the YC network, and when we chatted before, you said something that was really interesting to me, which was, you said,… 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:49 Harry Stebbings I mean, there's some points there which I just think are, like, too good for me to pass up on asking about, because, like, on the YC advice around the round, I would have honestly totally said the 2 times in the scene