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.