Y Combinator, every mention

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▶ 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.

▶ 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

▶ 2:22 Art Levy So some of our investors include Green Oaks, DST, Tiger Global, TCV, Lone Pine, Ribbit, Y Combinator, SV Angel.

▶ 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,…

▶ 5:30 Roy Lee AI sales agent for, for liquor distributors, and it was like the most bullshit, like YC, B to B, talk to your customers idea.

▶ 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.

▶ 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

▶ 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

▶ 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…

▶ 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.

▶ 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.

▶ 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

▶ 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

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