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▶ 46:55 Erik Torenberg and so he's able to, like, I remember he was at YC, and he was talking to my, one of my friends about sort of this universal basic income company.

▶ 6:05 Marc Andreessen Yeah, they, they, they specifically, they, they, they, and the incubators in those days went for like a 50% equity split, um, right, as contrasted to like Y Combinator, which is famously like seven percent.

▶ 39:38 Eugenia Kuyda I think that, yeah, so when, um, when OpenAI started was kind of out of YC, um, it was YC research, so they were doing a few, I guess you remember, they were doing a few different research groups, one on, uh, UBI, one on AI, some other… 3 times in the scene

▶ 2:16 Erik Torenberg I've always thought of why a Combinator is another example of a product firm in the sense that you could replace a lot of the investors and they have over time. 4 times in the scene
▶ 5:54 Erik Torenberg Speaking of the future of venture, will venture firms consider going public or should they consider like a YC or like you guys or firms that achieve such level of scale?

▶ 23:59 Erik Torenberg Paul Graham, when he started Y Combinator, identified that technical founders were undervalued, that they were being underappreciated and people thought, oh, you know, you need to have an MBA or, and you realize, hey, it's easier to teach…
▶ 33:27 Roy Lee We're, like, earlier than the latest YC batch of companies, yet we're, like, generating probably more revenue than every single one of them, and, like, like, the product is, like, it's literally two and a half months since, since being…

▶ 16:51 unnamed speaker It's fascinating because, you know, 1520 years ago, things like Y Combinator were getting off the ground.
▶ 31:14 unnamed speaker You know, YC is still innovating, doing,

▶ 0:26 Olivia Moore 95% of YC companies or something are now
▶ 16:28 Olivia Moore I think Gary Tan had some tweet that, like, 95% of YC companies or something are now kind of building, using those tools.

▶ 16:03 Prabhav Jain If you went to, like, the last, like, YC demo day, you probably saw ElevenX as a customer for such a large percentage of those companies.
▶ 19:58 Prabhav Jain Imagine YC Demo Day is coming up in a month.

▶ 10:14 Steph Smith One interesting stat that you guys shared was the percentage of YC companies that are now pursuing AI voice. 4 times in the scene
▶ 33:40 Steph Smith Or, you know, are we seeing that, you know, all of those YC companies or other companies that we're involved with are really getting further ahead?

▶ 31:27 Chris Dixon Yeah, it's like a thing you do, like, you know, in places like Y Combinator and other places have done a good job of this.

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