Y Combinator

“Actually Coinbase was in our batch. At YC and was giving anyone who signed up a full Bitcoin, which is insane. It was like five dollars back then. So it was like their signup reward.”

“I think we could actually have an entire YC for fast casual businesses with how much share there is to steal pretty quickly and how many entrepreneurs are going at it.”

“Like when YC puts out the request for startups, I'm like, I can't imagine that anything good is going to be built against these categories starting now because you've read the YC request for startups.”

“It's raised close to 110. We, I mean, the main investor, Sequoia, YC Schwab Kravis and I mean, a bunch of others.”

“And actually people don't know, like, we, first two weeks of Calcio, we actually started on-chain. So it was really, yeah, it was like, yeah, people don't know this it was like it was crypto first, I remember, and like, that was when we were doing this, like, …”

“Our entire engineering team is formerly DevTools, you know, like Y Combin or DevTools engineers as an example, teaming up with the health subject matter experts in the scientific community to build something.”

“When we were first starting back in April, 20, 21, we actually applied to Y Combinator to try to get funding, and they denied us because they told us our market was too small.”

“The second thing is, I think it'll generate a bunch of great acquisitions for us. If any of them grow too fast in the category that we're going to enter, we have this phrase internally, which is we're either going to scoop them up, or we're going to bonk them.”

“If you look around, we have hired more YC founders into Opendoor since I started in any company.”

“So, 60% of YC companies now choose Supabase.”