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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 26:08 David Rosenthal Another undergrad who passed through sale while Sebastian was there was a young freshman and sophomore who would later drop out of Stanford to start a company that went through Y Combinator's very first
- ▶ 1:32:10 David Rosenthal Sam, of course, being president of Y Combinator at the time.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:14:47 Ben Gilbert So, the engineer who started Gmail, Paul Buchheit, now, of course, a partner at Y Combinator, and actually with Brett Taylor, started FriendFeed.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:45:22 Ben Gilbert Y Combinator preaches, go talk to your customers, spend time with customers.
- ▶ 3:23:06 David Rosenthal I was like, man, her story in this company kind of reminds me of Paul Graham and Y Combinator and there's so many resonances here, but they're also kind of like a different world.
- ▶ 3:23:16 David Rosenthal If Y Combinator weren't about funding companies and being a venture capital firm and instead was espousing to founders instead of raising money, build your companies independently without capital, we would have a lot more epic systems…
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:13:04 Ben Gilbert It's like what YC tried to do with the safe.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15:52 David Rosenthal He's like the Y Combinator of semiconductors.