Y Combinator, every mention
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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.