Y Combinator, every mention
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every year anyone Amjad Masad 17Matt Turck 12Olivier Pomel 3Matthew Prince 2Joseph Adler 2Eric (MemSQL) 2Benedict Evans 2Roger Ehrenberg 1Peter Fenton 1Paul Dix 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
- ▶ 29:40 Matthew Prince Sort of the tech natives, the, the YC crowd, um, you know, the, the folks that were, that would be sort of what you would think would be our natural, um, audience.
- ▶ 38:26 Matthew Prince Paul Graham before Y Combinator used to throw a, um, used to throw a conference at MIT called the MIT Anti-Spam Conference.
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
- ▶ 1:04:37 Aaron Levie You don't have to be a YC startup founder to do anything that, that, that I just said, like every it's available to every knowledge worker, like,
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 39:47 Benedict Evans Most people going through YC have never heard of Oracle, like, almost literally.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
- ▶ 29:37 Benedict Evans Eye-catching quote from YC
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 0:29 Matt Turck It's multiple attempts to get into YC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:00 Matt Turck And then in the, you know, in the folklore of entrepreneurial stories, like, that's the, that's the YC part of the story. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:10 Amjad Masad Um, and so, Paul Graham, PG, the founder of YC, uh, um, reads, at the time, reads Hacker News every day. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:07 Matt Turck So you do YC and, um, so let's talk about
AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
- ▶ 8:44 Olivier Pomel So we started a company, we were super excited, we applied to all sorts of incubators, we got to a Y Combinator interview, and, uh, and then we didn't get into Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:32 Olivier Pomel A good idea in the beginning that helped us do that, even though it stood in the way of us getting into Y Combinator.
- ▶ 59:20 Matt Turck Well, look, this has been a, a wonderful, um, conversation, maybe to close and going in a completely different direction, but since you mentioned, uh, uh, you know, PG, um, and by the way, it's, uh, it's, it's, it's wonderful to hear that…
AI is now revolutionizing early cancer detection | Emi Gal, CEO of Ezra
- ▶ 10:57 Matt Turck I so recently on that note that YC issued a call for startups about, uh, for, for more MR startups. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:55 Emi Gal Y Combinator is putting a pitch out.
Building Human-Level AI Agents: Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu on the Road to General Intelligence
- ▶ 3:21 Kanjun Qiu I started a different company called Sorceress, which was a YC company, and we were building an AI recruiter.
Why Vector Databases Are Exploding: Chroma Co-Founder Jeff Huber on Building AI-Native Infra
- ▶ 0:47 Jeff Huber Um, most previous to Chroma, I worked on a YCBAC company for about seven years.
A Novel Approach to Data Quality for the Modern Data Stack | Datafold’s Gleb Mezhanskiy
- ▶ 18:42 Gleb Mezhanskiy Great time to start the company, and, uh, it forced us to actually go all remote from the very beginning, and, uh, we were in Y Combinator Summer Batch in what, uh, just me and Alex, uh, my co-founder, and now DataFold is 32 people, so…
Fireside Chat: Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner at IA Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 26:35 Roger Ehrenberg But that's against popular lore, or, you know, and honestly, I'll just say it, it's against, like, the YC ethos.
Predictive Analytics for B2B Marketing // Amanda Kahlow, 6Sense [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 20:18 Amanda Kahlow Um, they're a Y Combinator company, built the third largest instance of Hadoop in the world, a real time predictive ad serving tool.
A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 4:14 Peter Fenton And, because what I was struck with, with Y Combinator is, what they're selecting for has a pretty high hit rate for what I end up wanting to invest in, and, and yet, it's not the idea, because those ideas are so plastic at that point, and…
Anand Sanwal, CB Insights // What's Next? (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 4:17 Anand Sanwal So this is kind of why combinators, unicorns, uh, I have to, whenever I speak at something, I have to use that phrase a lot.
Paul Dix, InfluxDB // Open-Source Time Series Database // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Jake Klamka, Insight Data Science // Data Driven #25 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 3:29 Jake Klamka Got into Y Combinator, which is a great startup accelerator program, and that really kind of opened the doors for me.
Joe Lonsdale, Formation 8 // Fireside Chat at Data Driven NYC #20 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 8:44 Joe Lonsdale So first of all, there's already a lot of us, but then like the next 20 people, I think any of them these days would have gone to like Y Combinator maybe instead, given the culture, but we were able to convince them all to instead come…
Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012
- ▶ 6:35 Eric (MemSQL) Um, so, uh, my co-founder and I, we quit Facebook pre-IPO for 17,000 dollars in cash, uh, left all the options, the great salaries, and moved into a, uh, one bedroom apartment off Sand Hill Road, um, to do iCombinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:04 Joseph Adler So it seems like you, ah, identified this interesting problem that you saw at Facebook, and then you did Y Combinator, you capitalized your company, and then you went into sell for 14 to 15 months. 2 times in the scene