Y Combinator, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 33:28 Tristan Handy I understand there's a lean startup approach and there's Y Combinator and all this.
How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- ▶ 1:02:59 Matt Lerner And in the initial iteration, it's a Y Combinator company. 2 times in the scene
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:58 Todd Jackson We start by chatting about Amjad's long and winding path to become a founder in the United States, as he recounts the biggest lessons he learned after being rejected from YCom dinner multiple times before getting in.
- ▶ 7:07 Amjad Masad Codecademy was part of that movement and they had just finished YC
- ▶ 16:55 Amjad Masad But winter, 2018 is when we got into YC and we had already significant traction. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:24 Todd Jackson So it was part of that, you know, you mentioned the VC conversations and the YC applications.
- ▶ 53:06 Amjad Masad The Y combinator, not the accelerator, the Y combinator is a Lisp function that allows you to do recursive calls on anonymous functions. 2 times in the scene