Y Combinator, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 4:03 Brian Armstrong That would eventually become Coinbase on nights and weekends, and, um, I applied to Y Combinator.
- ▶ 30:56 Chris Dixon Uh, talking about Y Combinator, Paul Graham was in Boston, my company was in Boston, and I pitched him, I'd read his anti-spam blog post, and I was trying, I had this whole idea to use like hashcash, it's funny, these same characters…
- ▶ 39:23 Brian Armstrong Or is it, um, like, in a more global sense, like, my identity is, I'm a global citizen, and I have this online identity, and maybe I, maybe I feel a stronger sense of identity with, like, this Facebook group, or, like, you know, Y…
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 30:02 unnamed speaker We like to joke, maybe we should start Z Combinator, which is to take every Y Combinator founder that failed and just give them money, right?