Y Combinator, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Katelin Holloway – Human Side of Venture Investing at 776 (EP.490)
- ▶ 27:32 Katelin Holloway Being the first graduating class of YC, that network is phenomenal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:11 Katelin Holloway They were still a part of YC.
WTT: Yale Backs Emerging Managers… and Then What?
- ▶ 8:40 Ted Seides After selecting its fellows, Yale will seek to train them with course materials, perhaps modeled off Y Combinator's support of founders.
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 1:03:55 Mike Maples, Jr. Paul Graham from Y Combinator once said that his first startup, he put art galleries online and thought that people were going to want that.
Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- ▶ 4:57 Ted Seides In between and since, he's invested in early stage ventures as a partner at Y Combinator, co-founder of Initialized Capital, and most recently, founder of Seven Seven Six.
- ▶ 13:11 Alexis Ohanian We then, a month later, applied to Y Combinator, which he had just started, first ever batch, and back then it was 12,000 dollars for seven percent of your company.
- ▶ 19:16 Alexis Ohanian I actually joined YC, tried starting another startup, Hitmonk, then eventually found my way to venture capital.
- ▶ 19:35 Alexis Ohanian Once the handcuffs came off with Reddit, they invited me to come out and play a role at YC, and I wasn't ready to move. 6 times in the scene
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 32:42 Magnus Grimeland We work with Y Combinator everywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:33 Magnus Grimeland And you see the same actually with most early stage funds, the same with Y Combinator.
Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
- ▶ 27:32 Chris Sacca And I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I'd been lurking around Y Combinator for a couple years and watching how, because of the way the software industry had evolved now, teams of two and three no longer needed millions of dollars of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:31 Chris Sacca So I would show up to Y Combinator and volunteer to be helpful and speak at their stuff, but I would go to universities.
- ▶ 40:16 Chris Sacca It's one of the reasons why ultimately as why Combinator grew to be hundreds of companies, I found it really hard because you had to invest just on a couple of slides.
- ▶ 46:37 Chris Sacca That we just saw all this stuff coming down to where the same stuff that unlocked Y Combinator and that era of software was happening in building hardware and climate, just stuff around ag, transportation, energy, built environment, all…
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 55:02 Avichal Garg Like, look at Y Combinator.
Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- ▶ 27:16 Steve Drobny And now I think Sam Altman from our Combinator said the next Silicon Valley is everywhere.
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 26:35 Sebastian Mallaby There are other versions of it, which probably derive from a Y Combinator model where you put entrepreneurs into a group and you offer classes, immersions, networking events.
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 22:19 Aydin Senkut I mean, YC was just starting to take off first class, only 12 companies, hardly any angels, no networks, nothing.
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 23:53 Sean O'Sullivan Applications and marketplaces, but in the rest of the world, we're not a massive player like your traditional accelerator programs would be like the YCs and the Techstars and all the other accelerator programs.
Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- ▶ 21:27 Chris Douvos Pioneer by Y Combinator, and from an investor's perspective, you know, look, you can get a discount and a cap, but a lot of these are uncapped notes, basically.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 29:48 David Rosenthal Y Combinator's a perfect example of this. 2 times in the scene
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 23:56 Paula Volent You saw Y Combinator was a source for that.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 1:02:09 Jeff Hausenbold Right now it's, and there are a lot of entrepreneurs that are struggling to raise capital, but I've never seen more access to capital ever before through multiple avenues, be it Techstars or YC or governments or traditional venture capital…
Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- ▶ 7:36 Seth Ginns And I looked for deal flow out of Y Combinator and came across Coinbase. 2 times in the scene