Y Combinator, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
- ▶ 42:49 Steve Blank I think Y Combinator has done a good job on the front end.
- ▶ 50:47 Steve Blank I think when Sam Altman came into, you know, why comedy?
Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier)
- ▶ 25:38 Wade Foster I look at, I mean, again, on the luck side, like we went through YC summer of 2012.
How young outsiders changed the shipping industry | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)
- ▶ 3:29 Laura Behrens Wu Through, uh, a friend who was in YC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:15 Laura Behrens Wu And then, um, we did get into like an accelerator at, at some point, like we were rejected by YC and then got into 500 startups.
AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- ▶ 41:21 Dan Siroker I think, um, for our benefit, you know, it's helpful that, uh, you know, folks like YC who I love really push companies for more B to B companies.
- ▶ 1:01:24 Dan Siroker I did a Y Combinator in winter, and I had previously worked at Google.
Lessons from Stripe on adding new products | Tara Seshan (Watershed, Stripe)
- ▶ 25:52 Tara Seshan Just out of YC, a company that's trying to do SaaS, but also we started selling to Atlassian and their needs are just wildly different, uh, than, than that small company.