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Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 37:44 David Friedberg All the YC founders will be there.
Jake Loosararian, Gecko Robotics | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 6:22 Jake Loosararian First, I got an offer to buy the company from a company that makes power plants, and then second, two partners from a group called Y Combinator said that if I stayed poor and kept on building the vision, that one day Gecko would change…
- ▶ 20:45 Jake Loosararian So, you know, Gecko actually became profitable in 2017 right after YC's launch in 2016. 4 times in the scene
Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- ▶ 47:13 Jason Calacanis There was a tweet storm this week that Y Combinator might be having a hard time replicating their early success. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:37 Jason Calacanis If you own seven like YC or we do in a company, you're going to own three.
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 9:04 Jason Calacanis On Sunday, the Y Combinator founder, Paul Graham, published an essay titled Founder Mode. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:14 Jason Calacanis Then Breslow made waves on Twitter by calling Stripe and YC the mob bosses of Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
- ▶ 23:01 Jason Calacanis That's a non-profit group that was founded in 2015 out of an accelerator called Y Combinator.
- ▶ 1:09:01 Jason Calacanis This is Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator.
- ▶ 1:15:32 Chamath Palihapitiya In Silicon Valley is that there's these cliques and there's definitely a YC clique and they protect their own in absolute terms. 14 times in the scene
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 54:44 Jason Calacanis The co-founders in SSI include Daniel Gross, a YC partner, and Pioneer Labs co-founder and OpenAI engineer Daniel Levy.
Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
- ▶ 0:58 Jason Calacanis And he did a stint at Y Combinator, where he was president from 2014 to 2019. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:59 Jason Calacanis And you had a lot of, I think you did like some sort of a test when you were at YC about UBI.
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 59:06 Jason Calacanis Did you see the AI from some Y Combinator company where they like made a little video of us and like we're talking about somebody's nuts and then they were like, you said, oh, I'm going to ask my butler to ask my assistant to ask my house…
E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
- ▶ 29:11 Chamath Palihapitiya There was this thing where in the open AI emails that were leaked, they talked about being able to swap this phantom equity in open AI into either YC equity.
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 51:45 Jason Calacanis He went viral in twenty-twenty-two after he called YC and Stripe like mob bosses and had this whole conspiracy theory of how they were trying to kill his company.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 30:41 Jason Calacanis But when you inserted safes into this, you know, a simple agreement for future equity that Y Combinator created, and you put capital, um, 2 times in the scene