Y Combinator, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 44:59 David Senra I think Paul Graham said the, the number one breakup of, in Y Combinator is not like, uh, external factors.
The Biography of Anna Wintour
- ▶ 46:14 David Senra I thought it was like, oh, is this like kind of like a Y Combinator model?
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 36:44 David Senra This phenomenon was noticed by Paul Graham when he was building Y Combinator.
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
- ▶ 16:37 David Senra When he's doing like office hours with founders at Y Combinator that the ones, uh, that were kind of loss or like kind of not doing well, they were, weren't even using their own product.
- ▶ 39:28 David Senra So in addition to reading th this essay, I thought I saw that, um, Paul's wife and his partner on Y Combinator, Jessica said that she's going to reread every year.
The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
- ▶ 46:42 David Senra Uh, Paul Graham talks about, hey, on the Y Combinator application, we ask about the prehistory of co-founders more than any other single thing.
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 44:20 David Senra This is gonna, again, tie into what, um, the fact that, uh, Paul Graham writes in his essays that on the Y Combinator application, they ask more about the relationship between co-founders than anything else, and this is why. 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays Part III
- ▶ 2:21 David Senra Think about this Y Combinator's motto, which Paul is going to found, I think the year after, a few months after this essay is written. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:48 David Senra And two, this is many years before he founded Y Combinator.
Paul Graham's Essays Part II
- ▶ 32:45 David Senra It's essentially Paul giving us a summary of what he's learned by building Y Combinator. 15 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 9:12 David Senra Then in the early to mid 2000, he found another company called Y Combinator, which turned out to be this giant machine that made it easier to start a company and to get funding.
- ▶ 13:27 David Senra Paul has seen, not only he's got a lifetime experience, right, but he has seen, Y Combinator has funded thousands of, of startups, so he has like this encyclopedic knowledge because he's just been exposed to, to these examples over and…
- ▶ 16:19 David Senra Um, so it starts out with, hey, this is a talk that I gave at the last Y Combinator dinner of the summer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:35 David Senra Uh, opportunity with Y Combinator was very similar to Walt Disney's, uh, opportunity with amusement parks, where Disney's like, the reason I have an opportunity to do something really great is because the standard way of doing things left…
- ▶ 33:10 David Senra Uh, it's a conversation on the Y Combinator podcast with Paul Graham. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:03 David Senra If you look at the YC application, there are more questions about the commitment and relationships of their founders than their ability. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:57 David Senra Paul actually has a great way to describe this in that talk from the Y Combinator podcast I referenced earlier when he was talking about, hey, this is why determination is more important than intelligence. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:22 David Senra He says, at YC, we use the term Collison Installation. 2 times in the scene