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▶ 4:34 Matt Plank Um, and we had really nothing like we, we didn't, you know, we, we, at that time we were really, we had Parker gone through YC for the second time around. 3 times in the scene
▶ 14:19 Sam Blond Uh, some that come to mind, YC was huge for Brex in the early days, uh, and having a presence at like the different events and even hosting different events. 3 times in the scene

▶ 0:06 Anu Hariharan YC is university for startups. 10 times in the scene
▶ 0:16 Anu Hariharan Think of the accelerator as the undergraduate program and continuity is the graduate school. 3 times in the scene
▶ 1:38 Anu Hariharan And I actually went back with our team and reflected on all our notes of some of the most successful YC companies. 3 times in the scene
▶ 8:26 Anu Hariharan The second mistake, which we've seen pretty much hundred percent of YC companies do, including the founder who's going to talk after me, which is Josh and Gusto, you should ask him, is they all underprice. 3 times in the scene
▶ 13:17 Anu Hariharan This is another mistake I often see founders do, especially when they go right after YC demo day.
▶ 20:00 Anu Hariharan So I often tell founders, one of our most critical advice at YC is, do the sales till it becomes so boring that you know how to predict, that's when you hire your first sales leader.
▶ 21:05 Anu Hariharan This is something that YC takes very seriously. 4 times in the scene

▶ 27:12 unnamed speaker So, um, if you are a founder today in 2022, a first-time founder, and you get accepted to YC, but at the same time you have a seed offering, uh, which, and you're under one million ARR, would you go for YC or 14 times in the scene
▶ 47:28 Jason Lemkin The YC is great that we talked about that first round did the pre seed, but fuck that.

▶ 16:56 Jason Lemkin I mean, I wish I had the data from this YC class,
▶ 45:01 Jason Lemkin I think that's, that is, if you're not in the bubble, if you're not from YC, if you don't have elite founders, I do think for my whole career that's been an anchor point, and you can anchor up based on, you know,

▶ 4:14 Veronika Riederle When we had that end of two, 2018, we, um, applied for Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene

▶ 22:44 Jason Lemkin That doesn't mean the office is dead, and it's, I invested in a, I'm a small investor in a company that used to be called Hello Office, that's now called Raze, that does leasing and software for, for Y Combinator, and RO Co-Working Space,…

▶ 2:07 Justin Betakure We just did an analysis of the top YC companies that they publish every year, the largest market cap coming out of YC in the history.

▶ 0:34 Jason Lemkin Why Combinator?
▶ 29:56 Justin Bedecarre Like, you know, we, we did a study of the top 160 YC, most valuable YC companies
▶ 40:12 Jason Lemkin But people are going to look, are going to try more kids at Y Combinator.

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