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How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator Apr 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:29 Garry Tan I co-founded Posterous, a microblogging platform that sold to Twitter, and I also built the first version of Bookface, YC's internal social platform

OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:50 Harry Stebbings Uh, YC have since kicked them out of the YC community, which was announced this week or leaked this week from book face YC's internal product, which obviously wasn't meant to be leaked.

20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs Jan 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:06 Luke Harries We just posted in Bookface saying like, hey, we're doing the first, like, hundred tests for free, just come through, we want to check all our operations came out.

20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries May 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:54 Luke Harries They decided to pivot into COVID testing, we distributed all their first tests, and one key lesson, which, um, is probably a bit niche, is like, don't do beta tests for pandemic testing, because we set up this, uh, drive-through clinic, we…

Mastering Startup Fundraising: Insights from FounderSuite CEO Nathan Beckford May 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:03 Nathan Beckord In the last decade or so with the rise of online platforms and social networks and why Common Air has their private, I think it's called book phase, this internal network where people discuss and talk about investors.

Billionaires XMAS list (ep21) Dec 12, 2024 · 1 mention

How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers) Sep 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03:23 Matt Lerner So what they did was they created a finance for founders guide and they put it on product hot and they put it in their Y Combinator book, face, chats, and they, they put it out there everywhere.

The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author) Jun 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:42 Jessica Livingston So if you ask a question on book face on our, you know, forum for founders, someone is going to be there to help you.

How To Build A Million-Dollar Media Empire | Erik Torenberg Jan 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:54 Erik Torenberg And those are gonna be part of this book face competitor that I'm launching this sort of social network for, for founders.

Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:12 Jason Lemkin I don't think you, I don't think you want a lot of negatives on bookface, Harry.

The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator Feb 9, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:20 Kat Mignalek When a company goes through YC, for example, they have the option of launching on Bookface before they launch publicly. 3 times in the scene

Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired May 12, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living May 31, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:12 Harry Stebbings I, I do want to touch on the pivot though, before we move too far into Zeus, because I obviously went on a book face and saw status agent tag stand.

A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:28 Elad Gil so I would just, ah, and if you're part of YC, I think there's, ah, Bookface, which has all sorts of information.

Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator Oct 16, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:39 Shola Akinlade Um, and then later, and now I think the best part of YC is just book face, just passively seeing conversations happening.

Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator Aug 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:54 Craig Cannon I mean, so many people do at YC do the same thing that to the extent that I think it should be like a page on your book face profile, uh, the network where it's like, these are Ryan's like white whale ideas.

Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator Jan 11, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:03 Sam Altman This was a little bit less true when the network was smaller, and it is still a little bit less true for companies that are in a very specific vertical that does not exist much in the YC community, but, but most of the time it's just start… 2 times in the scene
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