Y Combinator, every mention
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every year 2013 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
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