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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Jessica Livingston comes up on 20VC, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, Latent Space, How I Built This, the a16z Podcast
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:51 Spencer Skates One of the things I'm actually very appreciative, Gary, uh, that you, um, and PG and Jessica and others are doing is just helping people tell these later stage stories.
#2281 Garry Tan: Y Combinator Startups Growing 5X Faster – Here’s What Changed
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 1:00:08 Jeff Bonforte He and Jessica were going back and forth between Boston and the Valley.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:36:45 Ben Gilbert And that came from, famously, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, who I think most people don't realize was part of that initial tranche, and Peter Thiel.
Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
- ▶ 2:57 Ben Horowitz Um, and you know, we talked to him quite a bit during that phase when he was running Y Combinator out of his house with Jessica.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 23:12 Kushal Bhagia He and Jessica and two other partners, they, they were, which is insane in hindsight, because they kept all the upside, right?
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 2:43 Garry Tan I guess I can't talk about YC without talking about Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston.
- ▶ 33:12 Garry Tan When Paul and Jessica created YC for my, I, I went through the program myself in 2008, and, ah, I came out transformed, and then that's very explicitly what I want to happen for people, um, who go through the batch today.
- ▶ 48:43 Garry Tan We brought Paul and Jessica back from England, and, um, we had this one talk that wasn't even on the agenda, but I managed to text, um, Brian Chesky of Airbnb, and I got him to come and speak, um, very openly and honestly in front of
- ▶ 2:16:08 Garry Tan You know, I was sort of right at the pinnacle of my, ah, investing, you know, as a, you know, running my own VC firm, and Paul and Jessica came to me and said, Gary, we need you to come back and run YC.
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:04 Jason Wilk Back when I did YC in, in, in, it was still Paul Graham and Jessica.
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 1:27:56 Shawn Wang Listening to this Jessica Livingston podcast, where she had him on and described him as a formidable person.
Garry Tan talks the state of YC, the impact of AI, and the dawn of innovation.
How Gusto’s $10B founder raised $6M, built a team of 5—& hit $5M ARR in just 2 years. | Josh Reev... · PMF Show
- ▶ 24:37 Josh Reeves That's when it was all in Boston and, um, Paul and, and Jessica would like cook dinner for everyone and they would all eat together.