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AssemblyAI Now Handles 4x YouTube's Daily Volume
- ▶ 3:34 Molly O'Shea So, if you look back over time, you guys went through YC. 3 times in the scene
SemiAnalysis, Altimeter, Nebius, Glean.. 12 Hot Takes From Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 47:12 unnamed speaker Uh, but we got some great advice when we were in Y Combinator, which is if you build a great company, it's easy to fundraise.
"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:10:36 Cyan Banister And so, for the first 10 years of my investment career, I was at, you know, TC-forty, TC-fifty, Disrupt, um, launch demo days, YC, up at TED, you know, like, networking my ass off.
Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 31:05 Arun Mathew And so their first adopter was the YC batch they were in. 2 times in the scene
Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop.. · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
"We Don't Trust Agents" - What This CTO Knows That You Don't · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 7:23 Molly O'Shea They're trying to hire for founders, or previous founders, people that went through YC, like, that kind of thing, that, like, high agency self, um, uh, what's it called?
Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 37:54 Hannan Happi Uh, the second one is to, to build a great product that customers really want and enjoy, and that's something I also learned at YC, right, from Sam.
A Rare Look Inside Applied Intuition’s Physical AI Garage · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 33:57 Qasar Younis I worked at Y Combinator.
How Applied Intuition Reached $15B (Without Spending $1B) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 4:40 Qasar Younis Uh, and I worked at Y Combinator before.
- ▶ 18:51 Qasar Younis Um, is that I think, you know, my YC background and, and us building this very intricate business and all these different verticals globally.
Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:40 Alex Bouaziz Started the company in 2019, we raised about four million dollars out of Y Combinator.
- ▶ 5:09 Alex Bouaziz Um, you know, we go from small companies that are coming out of Y Combinator or Techstars and others, all the way to large businesses like a Coinbase, a Shopify, um, a Cloudflare, or even large banks.
- ▶ 6:15 Alex Bouaziz We raised about four million dollars out of Y Combinator, um, which, you know, today as a seed round would probably be, uh, very small for a lot of, uh, those AI companies. 3 times in the scene
Inside Opendoor: The $2.8B Bet with CEO Kaz Nejatian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 25:01 Kaz Nejatian We have a lot of, um, if you look around, we have hired more YC founders into Opendoor since I started in any company. 3 times in the scene
99.9% of the internet is about to be AI? · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 20:52 Molly O'Shea And then through YC and everything, you got exposed to Sam, you became working together. 2 times in the scene
Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 21:56 Geoffrey Woo Like, I mean, just my story, like I had an opportunity when I was graduating computer science at Stanford to do my PhD at Princeton, joined Facebook as a software engineer, or I got into Y Combinator, and that got me down the…
- ▶ 1:04:57 Geoffrey Woo And you know, how maybe like, like, I, I, I feel like if you don't want to compete with Sequoia and recent benchmark Y Combinator, why are you in this business?
How Brex signed a $5.15B Deal in ~40 Days · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 47:09 Pedro Franceschi Sort of folks out of YC that could be building something new in the space.
Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 20:17 Keith Rabois And then once you stitch everything together and have a whole speech, I gave a lecture at YC in 2014 called How to Operate.
Inside Hadrian's $260M Series C to Advance Manufacturing in America · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 20:14 Molly O'Shea Recently, I saw you, um, comment or engage with a tweet about YC's recent request for startups. 3 times in the scene
Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 45:11 Jack Altman It's like an amazing team, and they just, you know, that the market pull there is astounding, and it actually makes sense because you look at, you know, like a YC, a recent YC batch where obviously we know everything is like, you know,…
Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 39:39 Paul Klein Uh, we have quite a few XYCCTOs or, um, you know, former CEOs of, like, you know, smaller companies that have come to BrowserBase, and those people tend to get it.
How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 21:01 Jack Sharky Say that also because when we were first starting back in April, 20, 21, we actually applied to Y Combinator to try to, um, get funding, and they denied us because they told us our market was too small. 2 times in the scene
Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 41:51 Leigh Marie Braswell You know, they were a YC company, and so a lot of these self-driving car companies, especially through YC, um, started using the API, and that was just this incredible customer pull, like, okay, this is like, if you want to build email… 2 times in the scene
Superpower Raises $30M Series A Led by Forerunner · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 36:24 Jacob Peters I think we've yet to see a very engineering native team, 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…
SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 52:34 Christian Garrett Um, I think, uh, uh, you know, if you look, if you're a, you know, early small startup, uh, of, you know, three people just finished YC.
How Kalshi Built a $2 Billion Prediction Market · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:04 Tarek Mansoor So it was really, yeah, it was like, yeah, people don't know this, uh, it was like, uh, uh, it was crypto first, I remember, and like, that was when we were doing this, like, YC hackathon thing, and, and, you know, Michael Seibel now is on…
- ▶ 14:41 Tarek Mansoor We, I mean, the main investor, Sequoia, YC, um, uh, Schwab, uh, Kravis, um, and, uh, I mean, a bunch of others.
How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:02 Packy McCormick When YC puts out the request for startups, I'm like, I can't imagine that anything good is going to be built.
- ▶ 23:50 Packy McCormick He did like this whole thing where he was in Y Combinator with software and realized like the, you know, the customers that he was selling to these explorers were actually like awful buyers and awful, awful customers for the product.
- ▶ 43:23 Packy McCormick Like when YC puts out the request for startups, I'm like, I can't imagine that anything good is going to be built, uh, against these categories starting now because you've read the YC request for startups. 4 times in the scene
Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:41 Tomasz Tunguz Uh, well, I remember, I remember meeting the Dropbox team at the Seed when they came out of Y Combinator, and they had commercialized
America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall | Jason Fiedler, Left Lane Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 6:25 Jason Fiedler They may be YC friends.
- ▶ 33:10 Jason Fiedler 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, are, are going at it.
Inside VC’s Existential Crisis: Jeff Morris Jr. on Surviving & Winning · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 51:07 Molly O'Shea You're not caught up in the mix of, like, YC group chats.
Text-to-CAD: AI Revolutionizing Hardware Design with Jordan Noone of Zoo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 24:21 Jordan Noone We, um, started pinging investors, we got into Y Combinator, we got an entry check from Mark Cuban, and we hit the ground running end of 20 15.
John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 5:16 John Coogan At YC and was giving anyone who signed up a full Bitcoin, which is insane. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:39 John Coogan We, we raised, we raised a seed round and I mean, we also went through YC with this company, which was really cool because, uh, I mean, it was the second time through, but also it was a cool signal to be like, it looked like YC is like… 2 times in the scene
Nick Abouzeid, Rivet: Growth "Hacking" Myths, What Worked at Ramp, & Better Tax Services · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 33:47 Molly O'Shea Is there gonna be one with YC?