Y Combinator, every mention
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The end of the network effect
- ▶ 7:39 Benedict Evans You're not going to outcompete Y Combinator with cool new ideas.
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 16:28 Benedict Evans And the other side of it is, like, go look at Y Combinator or any venture capital firm, there are hundreds and hundreds of people building point solutions.
Looking for AI strategies
- ▶ 1:59 Benedict Evans On the other side, look at Y Combinator, 90% of the startups are basically doing AI as enterprise SaaS.
Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
- ▶ 25:49 Benedict Evans So here we've got this university dropout who went to YC, started this. 2 times in the scene
A new wave of company creation
- ▶ 19:09 Benedict Evans Allbirds went through Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 36:41 Benedict Evans Meanwhile, what's in the latest Y Combinator batch?
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 4:41 Benedict Evans And you looked at that, if you're an, if you are, you know, a founder of Y Combinator and you said, so this is a company that has two and a half million paper invoices, what can you do with that?