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Schiffman: Y Combinator Is Evil and Has Ruined Startups
“I also think that Y Combinator is, is evil and has ruined startups. I think it's turned it into this absolute slop.”
Isenberg: Y Combinator is a YouTube channel, not a startup accelerator
“My other quick rabbit hole that I'll just seed people with is that YC is a YouTube channel, not a startup accelerator.”
Schiffmann: Founders Should Cultivate Self-Confidence Over YC Advice
“Personal confidence is what most founders should be working towards rather than like YC advice, because if you are confident enough in yourself, and again, you need to act like, I think the thing is that you still need to actually have good ideas and you need …”
Isenberg: YC Predicts Over 300 Vertical AI Unicorns Will Emerge This Decade
“YC predicts that there's going to be 300 plus unicorns in vertical AI in, in, in, you know, this decade.”
Isenberg: Perplexity Labs makes automated AI lead dashboards uniquely easy
“Like, no one is doing this. Like, yes, I can use other platforms to try to do this, but this is really easy to do.”
Isenberg: Y Combinator is a media company selling venture capital
“YC is a media company that sells venture capital.”
Robinson: The ideal startup marries 'Rework' profitability with YC growth focus
“I think the perfect combination is, is like rework fundamentals, but Y Combinator orientation towards growth. If you can think about product market fit and growth from the Y Combinator lens, which I really don't think rework emphasizes that much.”
Rogenmoser: Joining Y Combinator likely doubles a startup's valuation
“Don't join for the capital, but join for the valuation maybe, because you'll probably get double the valuation you get, you know, kind of on your own, unless you've already got like a really strong network.”
Ohanian: An index of global Y Combinator startups will perform phenomenally
“Will YC still be successful for the next 10 years? Yes. I think as they expand the sectors and geographies, YC, I think globally is one of the most no brainer investments you can make in early stage investing. If you just invested in an index fund of all of th…”
Miller: Y Combinator's ratio of B2B to B2C startups has skyrocketed
“If you look at the YC splits right now when I was working with YC when I was at AWS compared to now, the ratio of B to B versus B to C has skyrocketed. Like there's just not as many B to C companies in these incubators getting built.”
Miller: Assume Y Combinator's public requests look 18 months ahead
“Listening to what YC is asking for, assume that they are already thinking, 18 months out.”
Hudack invested in YC AI debt collection startup despite initial skepticism
“There's another one I invested in recently.
It's a YC company that is doing debt, AI debt collection, which I would have thought was like a terrible idea.
I can't think of the name off the top of my head, but the way the guy explained it, which I thought was r…”
Coogan: Y Combinator funded its first defense tech cruise missile startup
“Famously Y Combinator just had their first defense tech company. It's a cruise missile company”
Isenberg: Founders should join Y Combinator for community, not capital
“I always say like, only join, like join YC for the community and not the capital. Like, because the ability to sell to other founders within the network is, is, is really big. And also just like shared lessons, like it makes you go faster.”
Ohanian: Early Y Combinator was dismissed and unsophisticated about Silicon Valley
“The first few years of YC were very janky. It was seen as, I think most people were quite dismissive of it, and frankly, PG and Jessica were not that sophisticated when it came to Silicon Valley VC, because they were based in Boston.”
Simons: YC startups are using Bolt to generate landing pages
“We've had YC startups already. They've come to bolt to build their landing pages and stuff”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep was rejected twice by Y Combinator before getting in
“We got rejected twice.”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep built a full bedroom in the YC interview hallway
“So we rent a truck with a bed and the cover, but part of the experience was also with lights and other stuff that, you know, the nest that you were having in your bedroom because it was an IoT connectivity. So we also bring nightstands, And the lights that go …”
Ohanian: Y Combinator originally funded founders with $6,000 each
“He announces Y Combinator and says, hey, I think random college kids when given 6000 dollars per founder, that's how much it was, spending an entire summer just building, like writing code, talking to customers, can one day build billion dollar businesses.”