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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
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