Y Combinator, every mention
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every year 2023 anyone Michael Seibel 38Jason Lemkin 38Anu Hariharan 31Sam Blond 25Eric Rea 9Henrique Dubugras 6Ben Braverman 5Mathilde Collin 4Matt Plank 3Erica Brescia 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 19:04 Jason Lemkin I don't personally, I don't care about any of that, but I need some, everyone needs something to sink their teeth into, except an angel. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:48 unnamed speaker YC batch, we were doing a lot of founder-led sales.
- ▶ 40:24 Jason Lemkin But everything's outside of, you know, some, some great stuff in the YC batch.
How To Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup With Y Combinator's Michael Seibel
- ▶ 0:53 Michael Seibel And so, what I wanted to do today is give you all the tips that we give YC companies to be much more successful at fundraising when you are pre-product market fit.
- ▶ 1:33 Michael Seibel I think it's over 2000 YC interviews.
- ▶ 5:39 Michael Seibel So one thing we tell YC companies is, you need two different answers to what do you do.
- ▶ 11:38 Michael Seibel The biggest mistake YC founders make here is they say this list of things, and they didn't tell me do they do it in a month, or four months, or a year, or two years.
- ▶ 26:01 Michael Seibel Let me see if I can pitch YC. 15 times in the scene
From $5M to $100M: How to Scale a Multi-Product Startup with Lattice CEO Jack Altman
- ▶ 1:22 Jack Altman Um, you know, you look at even like a YC batch. 2 times in the scene
What the Future of SaaS Holds with David Sacks, Founder & General Partner, Craft Ventures
- ▶ 35:52 Jason Lemkin It can grow out of control the day after demo day, OIC, but there's this moment in time, it's starting to click, right?
From 2 Weeks of Runway to $1B Acquisition: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 23:23 Joe Thomas Like, I think that he, obviously, being the president of YC for about six years, they think really, really, really hard about what it means to have a successful company, and I just took that framework and I applied all of the Loom stories…
Scaling to $100M ARR: The Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid From LaunchDarkly Co-Founder Edith Harbaugh
- ▶ 21:31 Edith Harbaugh Uh, Optimizely, for those who didn't know, had come out of Y Combinator, and their sell was that you could do on-the-fly experimentation.
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wiz’s $0 to The First $100m ARR | Wiz CRO Colin Jones
VC AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Black Mangroves MD Arnaud Bonzom at SaaStr APAC 2023
- ▶ 11:28 Arnaud Bonzom Uh, I mean, you get a bunch of them, like your Algolia, Front, TallDesk, all of them studied between France and Portugal, and they go over, I mean, uh, the first two went to YC, TallDesk went to 500 startups, so they use Accelerator to…
CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers | CoSell.io Co-Founder
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Sam Blond + Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network
- ▶ 19:51 Sam Blond That could be if you've done YC, leverage YC in their network.
- ▶ 37:03 Sam Blond It was mostly YC, um, because like Pedro and Enrique were in YC, uh, we could leverage their batch and, and say like, you know, your batch mates, Pedro and Enrique, we could also leverage previous batches and say like, you know, we were in… 2 times in the scene
Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
- ▶ 20:55 Joshua Browder The YC, uh, mantra is you build one thing and you build it well.
How The Biggest Product-Led Enterprise Company In The World Did It | Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch
What Venture Looks Like In 2023 | SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin + 20VC Host Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:19 Jason Lemkin Crafted weird space that maybe YC has disrupted, but no one else has.
CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment and Hiring Managers With Ben Braverman
- ▶ 9:30 Sam Blond Uh, YC introduced me to Brex. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:50 Ben Braverman But yeah, if people are willing to give you sort of their best 30 minutes, so to speak, you know, the best company they've found in years of searching, in the case of YC, through hundreds or thousands of companies, there's really nothing…
- ▶ 31:47 Ben Braverman Like YC was smaller, like YC was more able to identify. 4 times in the scene