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▶ 2:58:38 John Coogan oh yeah, I was in the same YC batch as Coinbase. 2 times in the scene
▶ 3:07:53 Jordi Hays Um, I think that, uh, I think next YC batch, I'm sure we'll see a lot of crypto company, uh, RF RF requests for startups.
▶ 3:15:54 John Coogan When I was living in Sunnyvale doing YC and I was dead broke, I had to go from Pasadena to Sunnyvale, and I went by train.

▶ 3:10 John Coogan But I think back to like when I got to Silicon Valley in 2012, like, uh, we were doing like essentially YC and all these different like VCs would come and speak and they, and there were a ton of articles in tech crunch, like, like tech is…
▶ 55:35 John Coogan HVAC technician and YC founder.
▶ 1:24:33 Jordi Hays The YC crowd. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:32:03 John Coogan I don't know if he did Coinbase's logo, but I mean, Coinbase was in my YC batch, summer 12, Gary was around there, I'm sure he's super close with them, and then I think Initialize did like one of the major rounds or something, made a ton… 3 times in the scene
▶ 1:34:11 John Coogan Uh, Bifrost Orbital says, uh, the youngest teenagers to have built satellites at the age of 16 have made it to Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
▶ 1:44:51 John Coogan And, and this Michael is the man who studied the testosterone levels of YC founders at his offsite.

▶ 23:28 John Coogan Uh, he writes, uh, folks, Y Combinator has gone fully based and EAC pilled with their recent request for startups. 16 times in the scene
▶ 57:46 John Coogan I mean, seriously, there are a lot of companies that they, they, you know, wind up in YC, and they're like, well, we're building SaaS for farms, and then they, like, can't relate to the customer at all.
▶ 1:13:48 Jordi Hays Because if, if one of the best ways to make it big in America is to build, uh, credit to YC, a product that people just really love and sell a lot of them, right?
▶ 1:38:24 Jordi Hays That's probably more revenue in a week than the entire last 10 YC batches will generate in, uh, in this calendar year, twenty-twenty-four.

▶ 49:48 Jordi Hays So they're buying like, if you want to go and if you're a YC company and the founders just want to build like a fantastic business, uh, or a wonderful business as some people would refer to it.
▶ 1:00:20 Jordi Hays There's people that, that sort of index YC companies.
▶ 1:39:31 Jordi Hays I want to see the average YC founder leaving Uber or Meta, joining YC, and sleeping in their supercar. 3 times in the scene
▶ 2:00:08 Jordi Hays And the example is, I think YC did an analysis on their portfolio
▶ 2:27:29 John Coogan The average YC founder seed stage is 3344 nanograms per deciliter. 5 times in the scene
▶ 2:31:24 John Coogan Uh, she says, YC should add some cute ladies to the workplace, purely for the sake of their founders' low T-levels, of course. 12 times in the scene

▶ 27:46 John Coogan And we need to get it on, on Shark Tank.
▶ 1:37:35 unnamed speaker Uh, so, so he's joking, but no, I think, uh, I, it'd be good to rank YC companies based on customers because there's like, 3 times in the scene
▶ 1:48:33 John Coogan I mean, it also helped, like, after doing YC, like, you miss the standard recruiting cycle.
▶ 2:22:00 John Coogan He's like created like his own little like YC cult basically.

▶ 22:53 Jordi Hays A lot of those people that were clipping had more ARR than average YC batch. 2 times in the scene
▶ 2:58:23 John Coogan I think it, I was around when I was in YC
▶ 3:03:01 John Coogan So Eliza says, people shit on the YC ecosystem shilling to each other, but the underlying concept is actually beautiful. 10 times in the scene
▶ 3:05:58 John Coogan Let's stay on YC. 2 times in the scene

▶ 46:12 John Coogan I, I don't want to, like, say it because I don't think the deal's done, but there's, like, a big YC founder who had a company that blew up and the early team is, like, gonna go back and buy the IP and, like, you know, use it for something…
▶ 2:09:13 John Coogan It is interesting how there's like, you know, these eras of trendy, uh, you know, career paths that come out of HBS, like, uh, you know, it was banking, then it was like YC for a while, now it's like the search fund.

▶ 1:19:10 unnamed speaker You're still threatened by all the next YC batch.
▶ 1:40:53 unnamed speaker And so there's also now a YC company doing AI in that category as well.

▶ 1:33:08 John Coogan I, I think, I think the main, the main value prop for Valinor is like, if you're just a talented founder, but you don't know anything about distribution, you don't know anything about government contracting, like they will, in exchange for… 2 times in the scene

▶ 46:30 Jordi Hays You know, I, I think that, like, there's a, a huge willingness to try new tools right now because everybody's, everything's changing so quickly, but, um, is the YC company with 500 K and, like, a bunch of haters gonna actually win now? 6 times in the scene

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