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Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:16 Markus Villig So I went to this Y Combinator and other websites.
- ▶ 19:17 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is, with the globalization of venture startups content, would you just go global from day one and just go to YC, or hopefully through shows like ours, come to people like us, or do you think there are still…
Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:13 Sam Altman About Y Combinator Four is inexperience does not inherently mean not valuable, and there are incredibly high potential people at the very beginning of their career that can create huge amounts of value, and, ah, we as a society should bet…
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:31 Harry Stebbings Something I find really challenging, Owen, is like, you know, you look at the latest YC batch, and all the companies are relatively interesting AI consumer application-led companies in large part.
Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:53 Nicholas Chirls Now, why, why C does this?
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:20 Harry Stebbings Because we had Matt Clifford from EF on the show, who's the entrepreneur first, the second largest, I guess, incubator compared to Y Combinator.
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:15 Alexis Ohanian I'm like, Tony was a YC founder while I was there as a partner.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:02 Kevin Hartz Like, Y Combinator continues to have this, like, ideal venture model. 2 times in the scene
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:54 Pedro Franceschi I think when we met the YC guys back in like, like, they were like, hey, we like you guys, but we hate your idea, because we were doing VR before. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:08 Jason Lemkin Um, you know, I didn't know, um, there, there's a guy named Chris Dean who now runs, uh, a banking as a service platform called Treasury Prime, a YC company that I invested in.
- ▶ 1:05:13 Jason Lemkin So now your typical YC deals at 25, right? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:44 Jason Lemkin It was pre YC.
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:15 Dan Siroker The other one was recently I saw Dalton Caldwell was asked this question of YC group partner, and, uh, he said, a good pivot feels like coming home, and that is something I've definitely resonated with.
- ▶ 7:43 Dan Siroker All of this great content out there and Y Combinator and all this trying to help first time founders, they all kind of make the same class of mistakes over and over again without really, you know, internalizing the, the, the learned… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:52 Harry Stebbings So why not do YC the second time? 5 times in the scene
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:28 Tom Blomfield Um, getting onto Y Combinator in 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:47 Tom Blomfield We did a round at a billion led by General Catalyst, then a round at two billion valuation led by Y Combinator Continuity, and then found it really hard to fundraise.
- ▶ 10:15 Harry Stebbings Why did you decide to make the move with the YC role, and just talk me through that process, because you could have done anything. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:45 Harry Stebbings You built, you know, two incredible businesses in London, European through and through, living in the valley now, seeing the incredible exposure that you have with YC.
- ▶ 17:21 Harry Stebbings We then moved to, obviously, part of the move to SF, as you mentioned, was to be a partner at YC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:56 Harry Stebbings Um, more than with YC partners, they might actually listen to you, which can be, could be great, but it could be dangerous. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:15 Tom Blomfield Yes, they, we more or less require everyone to relocate now, um, to San Francisco in the dog patch where we have our office, and spend three to four months there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:19 Tom Blomfield By default, um, every week there is a, so YC spit into four groups, so it's not a whole YC, it's four separate mini YCs, it's sharded, and, uh, you'll get a very different experience in each one of them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:42 Tom Blomfield I think we've got a, shutting down continuity, our growth fund, has enabled to have a, enabled WIC to have a much more collaborative relationship with multi-stage VCs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:42 Tom Blomfield I think we've got a, shutting down continuity, our growth fund, has enabled to have a, enabled WIC to have a much more collaborative relationship with multi-stage VCs.
- ▶ 35:17 Tom Blomfield Yeah, this is an area where, um, I think it's way too easy to say YC's advice is X. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:23 Tom Blomfield Um, so YC has an investor database, which has 10,000 people in. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:13 Tom Blomfield Not really, like, sometimes, and then the vast, vast majority of YC companies end up raising their target anyway. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:55 Tom Blomfield And so this time round, we are doing way more of the curation where we're like, we'll literally tell you, turn up at six PM at this restaurant and you will meet seven random YC founders and you can chat about your startups. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:24 Tom Blomfield The best case for, for me, and for YC, probably, and for you, and like humanity, I'd argue, is that, um, roll forward 10 years, and there are like five or six foundational model companies, and they're probably attached to Google, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:15 Tom Blomfield It was a normal hot YC company.
- ▶ 52:21 Tom Blomfield I've seen companies go from zero to like half a million or a million of revenue within the YC batch.
- ▶ 57:46 Tom Blomfield And honestly, going to America where no one knew who I was, and joining YC as basically an intern, was incredibly humbling and really positive, because I had to, like, rebuild my entire self-image. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:06 Harry Stebbings When you see him as CEO of YC and what he's done, the excitement that he brings, especially around Demo Day, when you see him taking photos with the old school camera and just the joy that he, I didn't mean it horribly, has brought back it… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:20 Harry Stebbings What is the single biggest threat to the YC model? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:52 Tom Blomfield Having a really high bar for the partners we hire and a really high bar for the companies we fund so that we're making YC stronger and stronger and stronger every batch and not risking this like decade-long decay. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:45 Tom Blomfield I don't want to run YC.
- ▶ 1:09:07 Tom Blomfield All of the funds I've seen have, like, pretty horrible politics, and I think YC has the least politics of all of them. 3 times in the scene
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:16 Keith Rabois It's actually in my YC lecture that Eric alluded to. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:58 Keith Rabois I mean, YC teaches that, you know, proverbial do things that don't scale.
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:14 Harry Stebbings I think it's PG that commonly said that at YC.
Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:31 Brad Lightcap We actually, we spent a lot of time at YC looking at, um, this batch of companies that was starting to hit the growth stage that were these really deeply technical projects, nuclear fusion reactors, quantum computers, self-driving cars,… 3 times in the scene
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:31 Harry Stebbings I get in trouble for this when I see this, but I feel this when I see like two on 20 YC rounds and I'm like with two on 20, you're automatically excluding any top venture firm because really the 1.6 is going to be available for a lead,…
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:05 Sami Inkinen And this is sort of a silly example, but as an angel investor, I don't know, maybe Y Combinator or somebody teaches people this, like I get these emails like, oh, it's so loved to have you on a cap table.
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:55 Terrence Rohan Founders are rarely chasing heat at YC Demo Day at some random thing, and you know, they're, they're not playing that game. 2 times in the scene
Ryan Akkina: How MIT Builds Their Venture Fund Portfolio & How MIT Approach Direct Investing | E1109 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:10 Ryan Akkina This was back before YC was so well known, for instance, and I remember one spring, I think we helped, uh, organize a YC startup school event on the Stanford campus. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:25 Ryan Akkina Um, and then, you know, there's some newer things as well that we've done in the past 10 or 15 years, like say, Green Oaks or Y Combinator initialized.
- ▶ 44:31 Ryan Akkina And probably the number one thing I think about right now is, uh, you know, I mentioned we're investors in YC, and when Sam left YC, around then we also had an opportunity to invest in OpenAI, and, uh, we didn't do it.
Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:28 Kyle Samani Uh, I agree excessive speculation is bad, but I actually want to acknowledge one very important thing, which is, you know, the famous YC statement is build stuff people want.
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