Y Combinator, every mention
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How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor
- ▶ 11:03 Scott Cooper Uh, you'll hear this term if you've been in the YC world of something called a safe, which is basically just a fancy way of saying it's, it's a piece of debt that ultimately converts into equity at some, you know, predetermined price in…
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 4:17 Justin Kan Uh, and then, uh, more recently, I'd been a partner at Y Combinator for a couple years, and then, uh, incubated a few companies.
- ▶ 5:36 Andrew Chen Um, I'm really fascinated by, you know, your movement from going from YC and an incubator where you can maybe kind of dip into a lot of little things versus kind of putting all your eggs in one basket and trying to like start a company… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:35 Justin Kan So those people, Paul Graham, great example, founder of Y Combinator, Paul Buhay, who is like a partner of Y Combinator, but the inventor of Gmail inside of Google. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:42 Justin Kan You know, that's kind of a YC ethos. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 0:15 Sonal Chokshi We also share some clarity on what levels of autonomy means there, including touching on regulatory aspects, and also discuss, quite frankly, capitalism, what cars mean nationalistically, and what it'll take to bridge the worlds of Silicon…
What's Next for Education Startups
- ▶ 9:59 D'Arcy Coolican You're seeing things like, you know, YC, which is incredibly valuable as a networking place. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 31:33 Brian Armstrong Which would eventually become Coinbase, and then I applied to Y Combinator, and that's what gave me the confidence to, like, quit my job and say, alright, I'm actually gonna do this, maybe I'm not crazy.
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 10:59 Ben Horowitz You know, I think Paul Graham did a Y Combinator study a while back, and he said, like, two is the ideal number of founders, and you could see where that would help in that it's a psychologically
a16z Podcast | Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
- ▶ 37:14 Frank Chen Yeah, for people who are interested, I'd highly recommend Andre Kaparthi's YC talk on this, the, you can search for it, it's on Google Slides, and he, the whole talk is basically about where will artificial general intelligence come from,…
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 28:13 Dan Primack That's interesting, I mean, but it's going beyond some of the, quote, the righteous issue, not quite maybe the differential calculus, but we were talking back, say, Jessica Livingston, who helped found Y Combinator, she wrote a
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 1:19 Evan Burfield By common, it would be the archetypal accelerator.
a16z Podcast | Disruption in Business... and Life
- ▶ 5:47 Derek Anderson Some of them have stayed there, and some of them have gone upstream, and then you have people like the incubator, so like YC, who started at, at the really, I mean, when you talk about disruption, that model, I mean, they started with… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 9:53 Joe Montana One guy who built, uh, sold, started and sold his company to Google, went back to Harvard Business School, finished there, but his, he basically ran the, uh, Google My Business for a while, and his co-founder now is the COO of, uh, Y…
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 3:06 Michelle You We started in 2007, and actually we got our start at Y Combinator and then transplanted over here afterwards, and when we first started, it was so difficult to hire for that exact reason.
- ▶ 7:47 Sonal Chokshi Is that one of the, I mean, not to, um, you know, the, the analog that I think of is Y Combinator in
- ▶ 8:10 Matt Clifford Um, so the, the comparison we would, the way we would always differentiate is, ah, you know, we think Y Combinator in particular is done a, you know, truly phenomenal job and huge fans of what they've achieved. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Using Social Tools to Build Homes for Those Most in Need
- ▶ 6:33 Michael Copeland Before New Story sort of happened, you went through Y Combinator, YC. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 Michael Copeland And then a follow-up question around that is like, then, you know, you, you came through Y Combinator, you're in the startup world.
- ▶ 15:59 Brett Hagler During YC, we did this campaign, um, we said, let's pick a crazy goal, um, during YC, and so we said, we're going to try to fund a hundred homes in a hundred days, and, you know, we launched this campaign, and, uh, we got, we got… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:18 Alexandria Lafci And so, you know, one of the tenants that we kind of knew of before YC, but it's definitely preached throughout YC, is this do, do things that don't scale, right?
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 14:13 Chris Schroeder Are you talking about, like, uh, Y Combinator and 500 startups, or? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:03 Chris Schroeder And I mean, a little secret I think about them even in America is that maybe with the exception of Y Combinator, maybe 500 startups, a lot of them in the States, um, have had a mixed batting average in all.
a16z Podcast | Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs
- ▶ 19:46 Tom Lehman The other side of it is just an experience that, that we had, like, particularly in Y Combinator, which was just, we get to Y Combinator, and, you know, frankly, I personally, at least, was totally starstruck, you know, like Paul Graham in… 3 times in the scene