Y Combinator, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 1:13:42 David Sacks We kind of modeled it after YC's original deal, right? 2 times in the scene
All-In Summit: Alexandra Botez takes on the Besties in a 1v4 simultaneous chess match
- ▶ 23:08 Alexandra Botez We went through Lightspeed, Y Combinator, raised some VC funding, and then when it didn't pan out, I had started streaming chess for fun once a week because I missed the game, and weirdly, I didn't feel like we had product market fit in…
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 1:06:51 Chamath Palihapitiya So even if he doesn't have any equity in OpenAI, he'll get, he'll just put his money into the best startups that it's like Y Combinator on steroids.
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 50:13 Jason Calacanis I have larger deal flow than anybody with the only exception being Y Combinator.
All-In Summit: Nuclear fusion and the potential for energy abundance
- ▶ 1:37 David Friedberg Helion's raised about 2.2 billion dollars since its founding with a recent massive five hundred million dollar funding round led by Sam Altman, who we all know is the CEO of OpenAI and formerly ran Y Combinator.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 37:56 Jason Calacanis Okay, so I did this series, I did the seed round of Stripe, where I'm Y Combinator, and I say, you know what, 50 billion's fine, we're gonna mark it at fifty billion because we, we invested at two million in Stripe.
- ▶ 51:46 Jason Calacanis Okay, is Stripe worth, we'll just pick Stripe as an example, fifty billion or a hundred billion, and the last investors are at a hundred, YC in a two million.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 44:41 David Sacks Yeah, he's, you know, he's a multi-time founder who sat at the top of YC and got to see everything that worked.
- ▶ 55:55 David Sacks You look at 70% of the last YC class was ready, all AI startups.
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 56:58 Jason Calacanis YC basically let go of their growth team this week. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:12 Jason Calacanis When it works, you get money from founder university or, you know, tech stars or Y combinator, then go to a seed fund, then go to a series a fund.
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 1:27:26 Chamath Palihapitiya He buys small pieces of royalties, and his whole thing is like the Paul Graham thing at YC.
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 40:16 David Friedberg And they, you know, kind of went on, and the whole thing about Sam Gregg, Elon Reed, Jessica, Peter Thiel, AWS, YC are all donating to support OpenAI.
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 23:08 Chamath Palihapitiya This is a early YC company.
- ▶ 1:35:03 Chamath Palihapitiya And, you know, Paul Graham, when Paul Graham picked Sam to run YC, Paul Graham said that this is the most impressive person I've met since Steve Jobs. 2 times in the scene