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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- ▶ 5:40 unnamed speaker C, A, D, I think they just put more money in the latest round, which I don't even know what the letter is, F or G, and it's just concentration, concentration, concentration, whereas YC has been diversify, diversify, diversify, um, and, you…
- ▶ 29:34 Jordi Hays And pretty good marketing for Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:08 unnamed speaker This is something where we like, it's always like the, it's always like the bear case for like the YC requests for startups. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:23 Jordi Hays Yeah, this is, this is the bull case for Y Combinator right now because they have a set structure to their investments and you can't negotiate it. 3 times in the scene
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 28:11 John Coogan That Michelle Stevens leads, and she's hosted events with Teal, as well as Y Combinator President Gary Tan.
- ▶ 44:05 John Coogan Oh, this one, uh, there was another one that went through YC a couple of years ago that was like, we just look at the hedge fund, the best performing hedge fund
- ▶ 48:49 Jordi Hays He was weighing in on, on Y Combinator's success. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:08 John Coogan And it's a screenshot of backed by Y Combinator. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:18 John Coogan It was on SoundCloud for a while, and when I got to YC, they, he had already, like, sold his company, so he was, like, God in YC world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:17 John Coogan Uh, I think I have done a complete one 80 on white combinators business model in the past 24 hours. 4 times in the scene
Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- ▶ 29:52 Jordi Hays So, so if you're, uh, if you're a Gen Z founder, you're going to Y Combinator, you want to stand out, and you want to get a tailored suit,
- ▶ 44:27 John Coogan We talked about this last time, but Krish then says, I love you, Gary, but you guys literally rejected me. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:14 Jordi Hays Been through YC twice. 8 times in the scene
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 32:58 John Coogan So you're at YC demo day.
- ▶ 47:45 John Coogan Eight VC, Y Combinator, Hadrian, Allen Control Systems, and many more.
- ▶ 57:22 John Coogan Startup Fund, Coastal Ventures, and Y Combinator all jumping back in.
- ▶ 1:28:42 Jordi Hays This is why, I mean, this is why YC is like actually a very positive force in terms of, yeah, it's a union for founders. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:45 John Coogan And so if you're looking for an idea for the next YC batch, start hacking, start DMing Gary.
- ▶ 1:38:14 John Coogan I don't know if it's still up, but so this is Kyle vote, the founder of cruise went through YC,
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 16:17 John Coogan Uh, yeah, I remember DoorDash went through YC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:36 John Coogan YC Demo Day was impressive.
- ▶ 2:07:01 John Coogan This is interesting, and I like this post because it's true, but it also kind of flies in the face of, like, YC's, like, request for startups. 8 times in the scene
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 26:29 unnamed speaker Yeah, because for every, for every, for every one biology who's just horribly dismayed at, at what's happening, or, you know, just younger tech founder or whatever, somebody in Y Combinator who's like, this is, that's building in health…
- ▶ 1:04:17 unnamed speaker Uh, let's go to Harsh Taggar over at Y Combinator. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:03 unnamed speaker And he says, about 6.5% of recent YC batches become one billion dollars or more. 3 times in the scene
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 17:29 John Coogan Uh, Jordy, you wanna kick it off with YC? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:43 John Coogan Like, they've kind of bootstrapped their own, like, YCS community where they're syndicating deals together, sending employees around.
- ▶ 1:51:37 Jordi Hays It's totally counter to the YC approach of just like launch early and often and just like get feedback
- ▶ 2:00:46 Jordi Hays And I, honestly, this is one of those things, um, every single new company coming out of YC that's doing some AI meets finance for corporations, you are competing directly with, uh, a very fast moving gorilla, which is ramp.
- ▶ 2:39:03 John Coogan And you see that at YC with like the team that he's built there.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 1:25:24 John Coogan You just need top institutions like Stanford, Berkeley, perfect weather, the world's best talent, top accelerators like YC, thousands of angel investors, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:12 Jordi Hays In the next YC badge rippling for pirates.
- ▶ 2:04:13 John Coogan So this is something where YC is super valuable because if you're working with another YC founder, like you automatically have their email.
- ▶ 2:49:22 John Coogan I know I'm from YC era.
- ▶ 3:00:49 John Coogan NYC did this with the safe, and there's been this, you know, you just need to reduce the, reduce any friction in the capital markets, and this always has benefits, and people know this in America.
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 45:40 John Coogan There's probably 10, there's probably 10 YC companies that are doing this already.
- ▶ 46:48 John Coogan Uh, Andrew D'Souza says the startup industrial complex created by Paul Graham and Y Combinator is rotting the creativity and ambition of a generation of founders with a paint by numbers approach to entrepreneurship. 10 times in the scene
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 1:20:09 unnamed speaker You're also competing with all the big companies who are moving extremely quickly on all these product opportunities.
- ▶ 1:31:13 unnamed speaker Anyways, let's, let's have a, a YC, you know, uh, focus fund that's focused on love and forgiveness and one that's focused on revenge.
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 33:00 John Coogan He says someone should start a studio of cracked devs plus GTM team and just look at the YC batch every season for the best ideas and then front run them. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:22 John Coogan Uh, I was in the same YC batch as Chris, uh, with the Substack team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:04 Jordi Hays Uh, I would say, uh, find, go through YC and invest in the five, uh, invest every single dollar you have in the five best founders in the batch. 2 times in the scene
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 11:31 John Coogan And this is a massive, this is a massive shift from a decade ago where Balaji gave that talk at Y Combinator called Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit.
- ▶ 1:05:26 John Coogan Um, cause cause when you're post YC, our burn rate was three K a month for three people.
- ▶ 1:44:49 John Coogan Uh, and it's a repost of YC congratulating one of their portfolio companies.
- ▶ 2:02:44 John Coogan Creates YC. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:32:39 unnamed speaker this is where like YC is like dogma is just absolutely correct, which is just like keep burn incredibly low. 4 times in the scene
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 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.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 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.
Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
- ▶ 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.
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 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
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 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.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 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
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 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.
Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- ▶ 47:01 John Coogan And YC.
- ▶ 1:02:24 John Coogan oh yeah, your YC, you get a hundred K
Elon's Big Week (ep4)
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 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
Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- ▶ 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