Y Combinator
also referred to as: yc
5 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Eric Frenkiel · said 52 times in 18 episodes since 2013 · across every show →
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brought up most by Amjad Masad (17), Matt Turck (12), Olivier Pomel (3), Matthew Prince (2), Joseph Adler (2), Eric (MemSQL) (2), Benedict Evans (2), Roger Ehrenberg (1)
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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 27 mentions in 2 episodes 14 per episode
2024 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2015 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2014 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Y Combinator, oldest first
Dec 5, 2013
May 18, 2018 negative
Ehrenberg: Y Combinator's adversarial founder-investor ethos is 'really shitty'
“It's against, like, the YC ethos. Like, I don't think in many ways that that attitude of it, you know, founder, it's founders versus investors, keep investors at arm's length is really healthy. I actually think that's really shitty. And does founders agree to …”
Mar 6, 2024 neutral
Emi Gal: Y Combinator's Request for Startups included faster, accurate MRIs
“So YC this year, that was every year they post these kind of 20 ideas that they want people to startup founders to invest in, to spend time on. And one of the ideas this year was MRI and making MRI faster. Making MRI more accurate making, basically doing all o…”
Sep 27, 2024
Olivier Pomel: Y Combinator rejected Datadog over lack of initial product
“We applied to all sorts of incubators, we got to a Y Combinator interview, and then we didn't get into Y Combinator. I have an email from Paul Graham that says You know, a platform is only as good as its first product, and you don't have a first product, blah,…”