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How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 1:25:56 Lulu Cheng Meservey Like, you see one founder on stage, they might be super impressive, and then if you were to see, like, Y Combinator had this event recently where it was just star parade, and if you were to see Gary Tan and Sam Altman and Elon Musk and…
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 10:16 Ryan Petersen Um, and so he, he did Y Combinator for that. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:31 Shane Parrish So let's go back to Y Combinator.
- ▶ 17:04 Ryan Petersen Um, so it was when we got the license from CBP that I left, stepped down, and started Flexport, and that was about six months before YC started. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:05 Ryan Petersen And then it also, I guess that kind of understates like YC, if you're one of the top companies, I think it's very important to be a top company if you're going to do Y Combinator. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:31 Shane Parrish You get out of YC, uh, 2014. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:37 Ryan Petersen One is we started out, when we went through Y Combinator, Flexport was just a customs brokerage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:32 Ryan Petersen We did YC in 2014, and in 2016, we took those cheap prices and just passed them through to customers, and it led to crazy growth for us.
- ▶ 53:13 Ryan Petersen He was pissed because he thought I should go be a partner at Y Combinator instead of Founders Fund first off, but I went for a walk with him when he came back to Palo Alto one time, and he, um, he asked me why he did it, why I stepped…
- ▶ 1:28:58 Ryan Petersen Munger has this really wonderful essay, which I actually discovered on the Y Combinator website, um, called The Art of Worldly Wisdom, or something to that effect.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 12:16 Shane Parrish A big part of why Combinator is sort of like helping everybody with that stuff. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:40 Elad Gil One could argue Sam Altman has sort of maintained that over a very long arc between YC and the early things he was involved with the investing side, and then of course now OpenAI and other areas.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 1:29 Shane Parrish Today, we're pulling back the curtain on one of the most powerful forces in the tech and venture capital world, Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:40 Shane Parrish I want to start with what makes Y Combinator so successful. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Shane Parrish So what do you ask in 10 minutes to determine if somebody's going to be part of Black Combinator?
- ▶ 15:37 Shane Parrish Like, Y Combinator, my understanding is, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:06 Shane Parrish And then when I get to Y Combinator, I'm around a whole bunch of other people who are exactly like me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:14 Garry Tan Well, um, at YC what we hope is that people actually come to San Francisco and, uh, you know, we do strongly advocate that they stay, but it's no requirement. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:19 Garry Tan I mean, if it's scary, but might, might or probably will be good, I think we want to fund them, and certainly there are things that, um, would be bad for society, but are likely to make money, and, um, you know, the history is our, our… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:51 Garry Tan Maybe that's actually one of the reasons why YC startups are much more successful. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:12 Garry Tan When Paul and Jessica created YC for my, I, I went through the program myself in 2008, and, ah, I came out transformed, and then that's very explicitly what I want to happen for people, um, who go through the batch today. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:33 Garry Tan I think that FYC is the shelling point for earnest, friendly, ambitious nerds, uh, to steal something from, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:51 Garry Tan Um, you know, what might happen here is that, you know, and what we're actively trying to do at YC is we hope that there, you know, are thousands of companies that each can make hundreds of millions to billions of dollars and give… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:40 Garry Tan We invited our, uh, top YC alums there.
- ▶ 1:03:11 Garry Tan So we have, you know, lots of startups, both YC and not YC, that are trying to test that out right now. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:03 Garry Tan Yeah, there are YC companies and many startups out there that are actively trying to build that right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45:15 Garry Tan He was one of the first people to get access to GPT-IV, and we think of him at YC as the first man on the moon, and that he was the first to successfully commercialize GPT-IV in the legal space. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53:25 Garry Tan Um, I, I think that that remains to be seen, like the classic thing that Sam Altman has, ah, told YC companies, and, you know, told most startups, period, is you should count on the, ah, models getting better.
- ▶ 1:55:58 Garry Tan I guess, you know, is it cheating to say I'd put even more money into, into my, the, the YC funds that I already run, but that's a, that's a cop out.
- ▶ 2:04:18 Garry Tan Like, what I should be worried about is, um, and, you know, I spend a lot of time with, uh, our YouTube team and our media team at YC talking about this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11:16 Garry Tan I think the, the most unusual thing that, you know, I'm still getting used to is, ah, I mean, in full transparency, I mean, probably, you know, the median YC startup still fails, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:15:46 Garry Tan You know, actually, this is actually when Paul Graham, uh, came to recruit me to come back to YC, I had actually left and started my own VC firm, uh, you know, got to three billion dollars under management, like in the end. 6 times in the scene
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 1:09 Shane Parrish On the show today is Daniel Gross, former partner at Y Combinator, AI expert, now founder and CEO of Pioneer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:23 Daniel Gross This whole feedback loop got started because I almost accidentally, uh, applied to this thing called Y Combinator, which funds early stage companies, and I didn't really even realize what I was doing at the time.
- ▶ 21:03 Daniel Gross I mean, the, the super, uh, emotionally resonant one for me is I, you know, for every time I, there was about 10 times I landed on my Combinator's website, or someone sent me an article about it, where I self-edited myself, uh, away from…
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 15:27 Tobi Lütke Like, uh, like, what kind of things do you have to put on your application to Y Combinator to be even considered, right?