Y Combinator, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
How to Think About Product-Led Growth, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 6:50 Jason Lemkin If it's a hot YC company, they might do 10 or 15 or 30, but they want to own 20.
From Outbound to Channel Partnerships: Your Burning Sales Questions Answered by Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 3:36 Jason Lemkin And while YC is as hot as ever, right? 2 times in the scene
5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad's CEO and a16z
- ▶ 14:01 Jason Boehmig Um, I was at the YC event where that happened, and I loved the passion and intensity, and I think that the core is something I do agree with.
Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 27:26 Jason Lemkin If you're in Y Combinator, everyone's telling you not to spread yourself too thin and focus.
The Era of HyperFunctional SaaS is Here l SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 12:07 Jason Lemkin YC is great. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:02 Jason Lemkin Now there's like, 200 folks in the last YC batch that are doing bots and others to automate contact center, to automate support.
Navigating Fundraising and the VC Landscape Today with 20VC and Visionaries Club
- ▶ 6:32 Robert Lacher You're having a larger fund size, but you can't build a portfolio of 50 companies, then you're ending up Y Combinator.
Deep Dive: AI-Powered Marketing to Get More Leads and Customers with HyperGrowth Partners
- ▶ 26:38 Guillaume Cabane For example, like all of the YC companies that are doing like AI agents that does the entire SDR for you, like the output of that is like, eh, it's not great.
Klaviyo's CEO Founder on the Journey to an $800,000,000 ARR Leader in Marketing
- ▶ 32:29 Jason Lemkin You'd be on whatever just launched out of YC or on TechCrunch, right?
6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners
- ▶ 11:32 Lucy Fonseca So even if you just take a look at the list of founders building in the last YC batch,
2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 9:46 Jason Lemkin And some of it's good, like my Combinator mainstream to fight for founders.