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“Most media outlets don't cover very early stage startups anymore.”

“At YC we run the Female Founders Conference, and we are in our fifth year, you know, it's a conference where over a thousand women come, and we made it about three or four years, and realized we never had a mother's room.”

“The vast majority of people we fund have never touched base with YC alumni or staff.”

“So we funded solo founders you know, and some of them have done really well, but overall we've seen this pattern where it's just so hard as a solo founder.”

“Most companies who go through YC wait until they have a launched product and some very early users before they bother pitching to press.”

“Claire, you're at 35 employees now, and they, one impressive thing is that they have a woman or person of color who is leading each of the teams there.”

“Our standard deal is a 120 K for seven percent. So we have not done any of those other deals, other types of deals.”

“In the past, you know, batch reading through applications, we've, we saw a lot of women applying with biotech companies and hardware, and you're seeing a pretty diverse range of companies come through”

“I actually just crunched the numbers on this batch, and the average age of YC founders in this batch currently is around 30.”

“So Blavity has, you know, grown into the largest media company and lifestyle brand for black millennials.”

“So Morgan started Blavity in 2014, and since then they've built a community of over seven million readers and they've raised a million dollars, which they announced last year.”