Y Combinator, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme
- ▶ 11:03 Sasha Milstein So I did actually, um, come across a co-founder with Y Combinator that I'm currently, uh, 3 times in the scene
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 42:16 Chris Best We launched Bill, and we'd also applied to YC. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:13 Guy Raz Alright, so you get into Y Combinator, obviously big deal, because now you've got, you know, you're going to get exposure to big time investors, and you're going to get mentorship, and I'm assuming that's when you move to, to California,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:03 Guy Raz Why Combinator? 3 times in the scene
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 2
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 56:54 Guy Raz I think by May of that year, you become like a, a Y Combinator partner, part-time partner there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:24 Andrew Mason This is exactly what I'm trying to teach people not to do when I'm counseling them at Y Combinator, but it was actually, like, one of the moments where it was maybe really useful to be funding the thing myself, because no one could tell me…
nutpods: Madeline Haydon
- ▶ 38:40 Madeline Haydon You know, I would immediately link with them on LinkedIn, and then I would ask them maybe just one question, because I didn't want to annoy them, and then when it came time to do an advisory board, I had heard from someone else about Y…
3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON
- ▶ 11:49 Jason Ballard They went through the sort of the famous Y Combinator program.
- ▶ 19:16 Guy Raz So on the strength of that, you were able not only to raise money, but you had this promise from this nonprofit, this Y Combinator-backed nonprofit called New Story, to build, to work with them.
Saving the f#$%ing rainforests with Shara Ticku of C16 Biosciences
HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
- ▶ 1:04 Guy Raz Sam is the former president of the legendary tech incubator Y Combinator, the accelerator program that helped launch Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Storedash, and so many others.
- ▶ 7:50 Guy Raz Y Combinator. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:04 Guy Raz Um, but after that happened, you were in 2014, you were named president of Y Combinator. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:39 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest is Sam Altman, founder of the startup Looped, former president of Y Combinator, and now co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI.
- ▶ 37:14 Guy Raz The first one says, um, Sam Altman is the president of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI.
- ▶ 39:29 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and I'm talking with Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator and co-founder of OpenAI.
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 12:26 Guy Raz So while you were at, at building this and, and students at Yale and presumably like doing your coursework, you, um, you hear about this new thing called Y Combinator, which was headed up by Paul Graham and was one of the really kind of… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:45 Emmett Shear Uh, and then we started telling people, like, that was our startup idea, and I remember, uh, Chuck Foreman at a, at a YC, a little YC, like, after, after happy hour thing, told Justin, like, you, you're full of shit. 2 times in the scene
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 23:58 Brian Armstrong And so, yeah, the prototype was getting a little farther along and I decided, I was like, all right, I want to apply to Y Combinator and try this idea. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:29 Guy Raz And he's going through the Y Combinator program solo because things didn't work out with his first partner, Ben. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:34 Brian Armstrong Around the end of Y Combinator, I was thinking, I'm going to work on this all out for two years. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Troy Carter of Q&A (June, 2020)
- ▶ 18:58 Troy Carter It's just the opportunity to have access to that capital, have access to the support and training that Y Combinator companies may get, or that, you know, first-round capital companies may get.
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
Dropbox: Drew Houston
- ▶ 4:37 Guy Raz So after mulling over the idea for a few months, Drew decided to apply to the now legendary accelerator program Y Combinator, or YC.
- ▶ 10:30 Drew Houston He started a company called Zobni, but, uh, he got into YC and it was just this amazing experience. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Drew Houston I'd love to get into Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Guy Raz And you had this goal, which was to get into Y Combinator. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:52 Guy Raz Alright, so he joins you, and Y Combinator gives you the green light. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:46 Guy Raz So it's mid 2007, and Drew and his co-founder Arash finish up at Y Combinator.
- ▶ 33:08 Drew Houston They're, they tend to be the kinds of people that hang out on the Y Combinator startup news site, or Reddit, or sites like that.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Morgan DeBaun
- ▶ 14:14 Morgan DeBaun I know Y Combinator has different programs, um,
ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
How I Built Resilience: Live with Troy Carter
- ▶ 18:57 Troy Carter Have access to the support and training that Y Combinator companies may get, or that, you know, first-round capital companies may get.
Airbnb's Joe Gebbia At The HIBT Summit
- ▶ 8:26 Joe Gebbia A piece of advice that Paul Graham, who started Y Combinator, um, gave us and gives all the startups, which is very simple.
DoorDash: Tony Xu
Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
- ▶ 9:59 Steve Huffman Paul Graham is, uh, well, was the founder and the lead of Y Combinator and wrote essays evangelizing startups, uh, and kind of nerd culture and, and engineering and, and how basically you can
- ▶ 12:20 Steve Huffman Announce this new program called Y Combinator to invest in people like you. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:20 Steve Huffman Yeah, so, um, I didn't write the first line of code until June, and I had never built a website before, and we were kind of Paul's special projects a little bit, you know, because of how we got into YC, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:24 Steve Huffman Because of the way we got into YC, we barely, I mean, we didn't even really think of ourselves as a business.
- ▶ 28:38 Guy Raz And so around this time, one of the founding partners of Y Combinator, Jessica Livingston, suggested that Alexis go to New York to help spread the word about Reddit.
Instacart: Apoorva Mehta
- ▶ 22:31 Apoorva Mehta And so to me, the way that I would be able to attract some of the best investors in Silicon Valley was if I went to an incubator, like Y Combinator, which was sort of the incubator, um, in Silicon Valley. 4 times in the scene
Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
- ▶ 24:15 Joe Gebbia You should participate in this incubator program called Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:38 Guy Raz All right, so you get into Y Combinator, and, uh, what, what does it, like, what does it do for you guys? 2 times in the scene