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Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 51:46 Jeff Bonforte These typically have made not great entrepreneurs, but entrepreneurs that drop out of college, or, you know, some of the group that Y Combinator sort of focuses on that are really scrappy, we see a lot of amazing disruption there, and then…
- ▶ 53:36 Shaan Puri like, you know, Elon, or, you know, you guys were pre-YC, so like, you know, Paul Graham, Sam Albin, whoever, the players who have gone on to do, like, really interesting things, Zuck, early on, you know, um, 3 times in the scene
How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing
- ▶ 8:30 Shaan Puri Like YC is a good example of this, where YC basically created the category of the, the, you know, the accelerator, right? 2 times in the scene
Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses”
- ▶ 1:08:11 Shaan Puri Like, this is not true if you're trying to be a founder, go through YC, build the next big thing, the next breakout app, which is going to be, you know, the next social network.
How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 21:51 Matt Mazzeo And so, uh, a couple weeks later, it's like YC, I'm looking at the list of the YC companies, I'm just ripping through it, and I'm like, Supabase, open source Firebase alternative. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:17 Matt Mazzeo And he turns out he ran YC for a long time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:24 Matt Mazzeo Like YC created a whole process for like how to institutionalize a fundraising, the handshake protocol, like we protocol the industry and it's like, we're at like the furthest ends, maybe not the furthest ends, but we're like the match,… 2 times in the scene
The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
- ▶ 15:45 George Mack So I, I have an idea, which is the next Y Combinator only invests between the age of 11 to 18 years old.
Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000
7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
- ▶ 24:53 Will O'Brien Um, there's a YC startup as well run by, uh, friends of mine, uh, Sam Mandel.
- ▶ 31:44 Sam Parr You're out of touch for the, for the, for the YC group of out-of-touch people.
The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets
- ▶ 1:33 Shaan Puri Do you remember his Demo Day pitch at YC Demo Day? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:28 Shaan Puri Then he goes into YC and he was skeptical. 5 times in the scene
The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- ▶ 19:33 Shaan Puri And he goes, um, and the funny thing is that Ron doesn't even spend, like, uh, I don't know if you know about his, like, investing style, but it's exactly the same as YC, which I find fascinating. 2 times in the scene
Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
- ▶ 0:55 Shaan Puri So you've got Flexport, this, like, behemoth of a company, multi-billion dollar company, went through YC, you did the Silicon Valley, you won the Silicon Valley game, which is great, and I live in Silicon Valley, I like, you know, I'm, I…
- ▶ 5:14 Shaan Puri So it says Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator says, Ryan is what I call an armor piercing shell. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 Ryan Petersen Y Combinator website at some point.
- ▶ 50:14 Shaan Puri You have, um, you there on the YC application. 2 times in the scene
6 College Students Pitch Us Their Startups | MFM Shark Tank
- ▶ 20:22 Shrekar Lakkaraju So essentially we take, uh, one of my buddies, uh, YC model, we take any original video or any original audio, and we are allowed to synchronize the lips based on the input of video and audio in our backend system.
- ▶ 57:47 unnamed speaker We got into YC and are just getting started with solving it for millions of more with tour, the AI salesperson for property math.
- ▶ 1:08:02 Shaan Puri It's like, uh, if you're already in YC, and you already have, like, you know, a million tours done, then. 3 times in the scene
I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company
- ▶ 30:04 Shaan Puri And you went to one or two startups, I think YC startups that you thought might need this.
- ▶ 34:01 Christina Cacioppo It's so funny looking back, because, like, I sent a bunch of outbound emails to YC companies, but I didn't know the word outbound at the time, right? 3 times in the scene
3 Killer Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight
- ▶ 51:01 Shaan Puri Don't you think that YC should just have a campus, and it should have this sort of gothic 4 times in the scene
How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
- ▶ 17:54 Shaan Puri So like, you know, at the top of this, we talked about, you know, number of unicorns, but you know, you can look at IRR, you can look at your DPI, you can, you know, I did a deep dive on YC the other day, and there's like some insane… 3 times in the scene
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 13:52 Sam Parr He gets into YC, comes up with this idea, and here's this crazy set. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:01 Shaan Puri Five of the 22 are unicorns, so a higher hit rate than YC.
- ▶ 59:09 Shaan Puri And he applies to YC three times. 5 times in the scene
The Top 0.1% Of Ideas I've Stumbled Upon On The Internet
- ▶ 3:14 Shaan Puri I created YC, I've now seen thousands of founders, and if I think about the trait that is most valuable in founders, it's not intelligence, it's not charisma, it's not, uh, you know, engineering prowess, it's the, you know, the best…
- ▶ 8:35 Shaan Puri You know, impressive, or if you had to bet on five people in YC, it would have been like Sam Altman, the Collison's, and like Jess Maul was one of the five. 2 times in the scene
Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
- ▶ 33:27 Jack Smith And I said, one thing, analogy I thought of is like, I went to this thing like Y Combinator, AngelPad, and I've never worked that hard or achieved that much in three months.
- ▶ 41:33 Shaan Puri And he talks about this exact thing, you know, before he started Y Combinator, he did ViaWeb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:52 Shaan Puri They ended up getting to YC and we let them work out of our office.
I Lost Everything Twice… Then Made $26M In 18 Months
- ▶ 48:28 Shaan Puri Uh, they used to get a lot of shit because they would give you 20, the original deal was like 18,000 dollars, like six K per founder in a company. 5 times in the scene
Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
- ▶ 30:28 Dan Porter You know, Y Combinator pitch.
How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder
- ▶ 13:46 Shaan Puri Paul Graham was, you know, running YC at the time when Stripe went through it. 4 times in the scene
Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried)
- ▶ 45:32 Jason Fried So this is like, um, Y Combinator startup school years ago.
How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time)
- ▶ 14:24 Shaan Puri And he's like, he put a chart up and there was a, it was a YC talk and he puts a chart up on the screen.
Data Backed Businesses Guaranteed To Make +$1M From Day 1
- ▶ 4:38 Jeremy Giffon Um, Steven Rinella with the, the hunting stuff, and it's definitely starting to happen, but I think like a more, you know, this is a little bit exaggerated, but I think most people in a YC batch could find a podcaster and just say, okay,…
Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman
- ▶ 45:44 Shaan Puri And actually the origin of this was to do it inside Y Combinator where Sam was currently the president. 5 times in the scene
5 Genius Business Tactics Turning Broke Authors Into Millionaires
- ▶ 33:31 Shaan Puri And he's like, uh, and the, but like, you know, his small reader base, it's kind of like YC.
My Mother-in-Law Started a $1M Side Hustle In Her 50's
We Got Drunk And Came Up With 8 Business Ideas (#540)
- ▶ 39:31 Shaan Puri It's like Y Combinator, but just for people who recently got divorced, and you apply to get in,
If I Had To Make $1 Billion... Here’s The Business I Would Start
- ▶ 36:13 Shaan Puri Like I remember when boom supersonic, the airplane company came out at YC and they were like, yeah,
From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
- ▶ 1:04:45 Shaan Puri But like YC did the same thing. 2 times in the scene
From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526)
- ▶ 0:40 Shaan Puri and she was at YC, put her on the very short list of a couple of people with Sam Altman and a few others as the most impressive people, the people that he thought 30 years from now will have done, done the most and gone the furthest.
- ▶ 9:49 Jess Mah And he said, oh, you should do IC and he helped review my application and, uh, and then the rest is history.
- ▶ 46:07 Shaan Puri Um, you met Justin Kahn, you met Mark Benioff, you met, uh, you know, these different YC founders.
Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends (#523)
- ▶ 7:05 Shaan Puri And by the way, the guy who tells that story is Paul Buchheit, the guy who created Gmail, built Gmail inside of Google, and was one of the co-founders of Y Combinator, and so for Paul Buchheit to go and say, he said in that thing, he goes,
Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story (#521)
Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)
- ▶ 1:11:39 Ishan Haque Like a little Y Combinator thing for, for these weirdos.
Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- ▶ 1:03:46 Shaan Puri Like, and I just remembered the open AI example, by the way, Sam Altman, president of YC, right? 3 times in the scene
Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507)
- ▶ 27:53 Shaan Puri Um, have you heard the story of how, uh, Instacart got into YC? 7 times in the scene
How To Grow A Small Agency Into A Billion Dollar Company (#414)
- ▶ 51:27 Shaan Puri My little personal YC.
Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- ▶ 38:54 Suleman "Suli" Ali I would start a Y Combinator for creators and, um, maximize the, uh, basically find, uh, the next Kim Kardashian, the next Mr.
- ▶ 1:00:24 Suleman "Suli" Ali Well, he actually tried to do a couple other startups, and then I think, um, and I think got into YC and did a YC funded startup, um,
The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
- ▶ 28:28 Shaan Puri He goes, I shouldn't mention a YC founder, um, but Sam Altman cannot be stopped by flimsy rules.
How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
- ▶ 5:12 Shaan Puri Well, you went through YC, right? 4 times in the scene
How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
- ▶ 6:14 Shaan Puri And, uh, at YC, they have this thing that they say, do things that don't scale.
We Hosted A Shark Tank For Tech Startups | My First Million Demo Day (#356)
- ▶ 16:48 unnamed speaker I'm a serial entrepreneur and a YC alumni. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:01 Shaan Puri Now the, the, the questions I have, the things I would want to know is he mentioned that his last company, which was YC-I, that's not very long ago.
How FTX Scaled A $30 Billion Company With Only 30 Engineers!
- ▶ 36:06 Shaan Puri Like they're the best YC founders and YC is the best group of founders, right? 2 times in the scene
How To Turn $10,000 Into $150,000 With Angel Investing
- ▶ 7:38 Shaan Puri These are like Brex, I think was the fastest growing YC company in the last few years.
3 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022
- ▶ 35:48 Shaan Puri And, um, I heard the guy from YC who Michael Seibel talking about this. 2 times in the scene
The $5M Question, The Company You Would Build If You Had the Time, VR Therapy, and More
- ▶ 17:57 Shaan Puri And at the time we had said somebody should create YC for content, basically the way that Y Combinator helped produce software startups. 2 times in the scene
How to Have an Early Adopter Mindset, ConstitutionDAO, Optimizing Twitter Bios, and More
- ▶ 48:32 Shaan Puri They had this, I think Michael Seibel, who now runs Y Combinator and Justin Kahn, they wanted to do social cam.
How to Make Millions With a Modern Day Infomercial | My First Million #221
12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220
- ▶ 22:04 Shaan Puri Second time I heard about it was from Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator.
What Venture Capital Will Look Like in the Future | My First Million #215
- ▶ 25:23 Shaan Puri So that's the YC version of this.
The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash | My First Million #211 with Julian Shapiro
- ▶ 6:50 Julian Shapiro So another interesting example is a recent YC company and they're called Yotta.
- ▶ 25:47 Julian Shapiro And it's become the de facto startup that YC companies use. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:49 Julian Shapiro And like you think of Paul Graham, like this, you know, the, the writer, guru, YC founder that everyone looks up to, you know, in a million years, you would never expect them to have like a, like a banner ad at the bottom of a blog post he…
How to Build a Community | My First Million #213
- ▶ 50:35 Shaan Puri This is a former YC partner left to go start this. 3 times in the scene
How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205
- ▶ 34:13 Shaan Puri Alright, so I saw this company that's in YC right now, and I don't know how you say it.
Behind-the-Scenes of Shaan's Power Writing Course | My First Million #204
- ▶ 18:02 Shaan Puri Is, um, unbundling a piece of YC. 6 times in the scene
The Secret to Being Great | My First Million #199
- ▶ 30:32 Shaan Puri I remember Paul Graham had once said something, and Paul Graham's obviously a fan, fan of Sam Altman, because he, Paul Graham started Y Combinator, and then he put Sam Altman in charge of it, 4 times in the scene
A Discussion on Sam & Shaan's Recent Investments | My First Million #195
- ▶ 17:17 Shaan Puri They went through YC, I think. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:26 Shaan Puri I think he was like in some YC batch or something like that.
Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
- ▶ 11:03 Shaan Puri They were a YC startup and they were, you know, software for hotels to increase their bookings as focused in Latin America.
Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
- ▶ 5:59 Shaan Puri Who can either give you money, advice, build, actually get in the code and build with you, and so he's got this disc, it's kind of like Y Combinator, he's got this discord group, and every single company is like, I don't know, like a…
Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- ▶ 51:25 Balaji Srinivasan But, but the, like all the tools and stuff that we use for selection funding, like the YC style, safe equivalent, and so on, um, all those will be public.
- ▶ 1:27:31 Balaji Srinivasan Like, I mean, sort of like YC's founders, but not just tech founders, um, you know, people who are media, media founders, they're influencers, they're writers, they're activists for technological progress, like Isabella Bemke.
How a City Tour is Making Millions, & Selling Manhood | My First Million # 177
How to Buy Distressed Assets, How to Network with Codie Sanchez | My First Million Ep. #176
- ▶ 33:15 Codie Sanchez And that I think is interesting, but you know, throw the Y Combinator term sheet out the window.
Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175
- ▶ 13:18 Shaan Puri Um, uh, but if I had done it at the seed, it would have been, you know, maybe, I think the seed was probably like, 10, fifteen million, um, coming out of YC, and so, you know, that's, that's taking ten million, turning it into a billion in…
How Beachbody Makes Money, & Brainstorming "HackerNews for X" | My First Million #173
- ▶ 13:51 Shaan Puri It's, you know, started by Paul Graham, and it's sort of baked into Y Combinator.
MFM #172 - Advice to Young Entrepreneurs, Indie Businesses Making Millions, & How to Grow a Podcast
- ▶ 14:26 Shaan Puri Funders Club itself is a YC startup, and then Coinbase was a YC startup, and so Funders Club took a share, did a crowdfunding campaign for that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:39 Shaan Puri So I heard of one company in this, uh, this year's YC batch that was doing pay as you go. 3 times in the scene
MFM #167: Answering Your Questions On Investments, Businesses and Life
- ▶ 17:02 Shaan Puri And so they do a lot of the heavy lifting, like for this week, this, this year's YC batch, you know, Zach himself referred in 22 of the companies. 5 times in the scene
MFM #164: BitClout Explained & How To Successfully Angel Invest
- ▶ 56:30 Shaan Puri And then I have this other guy who's a scout that basically he works at on deck and he went through YC 3 times in the scene
What Does It Take To Become Rich? How Some People Make Millions! My First Million Podcast 04-02-2020
How to Navigate the Upcoming Depression | My First Million Podcast | 03-24-2020
- ▶ 9:04 Shaan Puri We're going to talk a little bit about Airbnb, and then we're going to start this thing that we, we, we teased last week, which is Y Combinator had their demo day. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:46 Shaan Puri Yes, this has been a trend in the last year or two for Y Combinator. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:21 Shaan Puri So they're, they're doing that thing that YC companies do, you'll see this a lot, is, um, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:34 Shaan Puri The big ideas, the real big ideas that come out of Y Combinator don't always sound like big ideas to start. 2 times in the scene
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