Y Combinator
4 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2026 by Brian Armstrong · said 37 times in 4 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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2026 37 mentions in 4 episodes 9 per episode
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Mar 1, 2026 neutral
Mar 1, 2026 neutral
Armstrong: Coinbase was not a hot Y Combinator company, raised $600k seed
“Like we were not a hot company at Y Combinator. We went to the demo day that they do, where we raised like the six, raised the 600 K seed round. And but there was lots of companies that raised like multi-million dollar rounds and beyond. Like we were kind of m…”
Aug 23, 2026 positive
Altman: OpenAI would not have been possible without YC's ecosystem changes
“So if we, you know, ran the clock back to 2000 four and then projected technology forward to 2016 but not anything else about the shape of
Startup ecosystem, what it meant to be an entrepreneur, how capital flowed, all of the, you know, who got to run companie…”