Y Combinator, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
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