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Hadrian plans to acquire or outcompete YC's new hardware startups
“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.”
McCormick: YC 'Request for Startups' Prompts Rarely Lead to Great Companies
“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.”
Opendoor has hired more YC founders than any other company under Nejatian
“If you look around, we have hired more YC founders into Opendoor since I started in any company.”
Y Combinator rejected Whop in 2021 over concerns about market size
“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.”
Fiedler: A Y Combinator for fast-casual restaurants needs to exist
“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.”
Mathew: 60% of Y Combinator companies now choose Supabase
“So, 60% of YC companies now choose Supabase.”
Peters: Superpower's engineering team consists of former YC DevTools engineers
“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.”
Mansoor: Kalshi has raised nearly $110M from Sequoia, Schwab, and Kravis
“It's raised close to 110. We, I mean, the main investor, Sequoia, YC Schwab Kravis and I mean, a bunch of others.”
Mansoor: Kalshi was originally an on-chain crypto project during Y Combinator
“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, …”