Y Combinator, every mention
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every year anyone Brian Armstrong 15David Senra 14Sam Altman 6Tony Xu 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 35:41 Sam Altman You know, this is how I believe you build good, safe, robust, useful technology and products, and I think is a great, a great learning of Y Combinator.
- ▶ 58:30 Sam Altman When you just said that the thing, this is like a meme for many YC founders, ah, where you would go see him for office hours and he would say, you know what you should do? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:42 David Senra You've mentioned YC way many, too many times in this conversation. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:47 Sam Altman When I've had something really work, when I understand like what parts of Y Combinator really worked or what parts of OpenAI really worked, trying to apply those lessons going forward has been much more helpful to me than trying to apply… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:06 David Senra The opposite of YCA advice, right?
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 2:13 David Senra It's like, dude, I remember watching like startup school in Y Combo area.
Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- ▶ 15:23 David Senra This is when you applied to Y Combinator or no? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:08 Tony Xu If you think like one of the benefits, which we didn't get into, was one of the benefits of Y Combinator, besides being a forcing function of whether or not of testing our commitment to the project, was actually the peer group. 2 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 36:28 Brian Armstrong Well, the main reason was that I had read a lot of Paul Graham essays from Y Combinator. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:07 Brian Armstrong And what they teach you in Y Combinator is like, go talk to customers, get feedback, and then build the product, and talk to customers, and build the product, and just do that on repeat, and don't get distracted by any other bullshit, like… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:22 Brian Armstrong Like we were not a hot company at Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:05 Brian Armstrong A lot of founders, like the found, the other founders that were in my YC batch that I went through, um, I saw many of them, like, burn out within three, three, four years.