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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Mode Grows 95% to $19m ARR, Turning Analysis Into Superhero's
- ▶ 2:44 Derek Steer The valuation was like in the range of five million, which we, you know, we were just triangulating around like kind of standard YC evaluations at the time.
LeadGenius Hits $10m in Revenue, Growth Slow at 50% YoY Considering $25m Raised
- ▶ 5:18 Prayag Narula Uh, no, so we got some money from Y Combinator, 3 times in the scene
NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue
- ▶ 12:30 Nathan Latka On that first day or two of, of, of that post going live on Hacker News or Y Combinator, how many new email opt-ins did you get?
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com
- ▶ 39:10 Will Schroeder Uh, Y Combinator wouldn't come, come along for years after, and then all the people that copied them.
GitLab Hits $2.7b Valuation is 20x+ Revenue Multiple, 160%+ in Net Revenue Retention, 10,000 Customers
- ▶ 1:48 Nathan Latka A self-taught Ruby developer, he commercialized GitLab with its creator in 2012 and graduated from YC in 2015.
Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing
- ▶ 12:15 Tyler Tringas Pretty normal to be going to tech stars, 500 startups, YC with like a proof of concept and all that sort of stuff.
- ▶ 19:32 Tyler Tringas Um, to take that chance or not, which I did, you know, I was like burning through frequent flyer miles to like fly my co-founder and I out to Palo Alto to go and, you know, we had like a Y Combinator, but, you know, interview
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
- ▶ 7:16 Nathan Latka Is like a YC model, like a 101 150 for seven percent or what?
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?
- ▶ 4:55 Kunal Bhatia We launched about three years ago, um, and then went through a Y Combinator startup school in 2017.
- ▶ 7:34 Nathan Latka You mentioned you went through YC, so you've raised some. 2 times in the scene
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- ▶ 0:42 Nathan Latka They built that company via YC and ultimately sold to Google, but that partner, for some reason, refuses to acknowledge that Anar was a co-founder.
- ▶ 1:05 Nathan Latka Between 2005 and 2070 guest lectured at Cornell before jumping into in 2008 and finding an app called Remail with his co-founder, which later went through Y Combinator and eventually a couple of years later sued, sold to Google.
- ▶ 23:46 Einar Volset It's like we would, partly I was, it was, I think Gabor wanted to get into Y Combinator and PG has a very strong attitude that you should definitely have a co-founder. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:08 Nathan Latka and I know it's YC demo day. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:07 Nathan Latka So take us past, what happened in the days after YC Demo Day?
- ▶ 37:43 Einar Volset And so, uh, people just came out of the woodwork, like mostly YC companies saying like, Hey dude, like you worked at Remail. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:40 Einar Volset By, by this time, I saw the YC network, um, had grown enormously because there's, there's now so many more companies in that network.
- ▶ 54:06 Einar Volset Like I had someone come through from YC
- ▶ 1:03:11 Einar Volset And so what we saw was, so, so the way to think about it, if you know YC is like, YC effectively filled a pretty big hole in like a five or six, along with a couple other players, like first round capital. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:07 Einar Volset Like we, we don't like, we're sort of similar to YC and that, that we're, we're looking to effectively index broadly into the market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:04 Nathan Latka Aynar Volset started with that PhD in computing science from Newcastle in 2005, went through the remail YC journey and then exited that in 2010, then got into M&A via left, left coast R&D first and then Discretion Capital.
They Spent $100k on MVP, Now Have Customers Expanding $100/mo to $1000/mo in First year, How!?
- ▶ 14:54 Nitin Verma Uh, so it's not really a business book, but, uh, I love reading Paul Graham's essays, uh, and I always fall back upon those, uh, so Paul Graham from YC.
How to Acquire a $180k Revenue SaaS Company for $3k With Ryan Kulp
- ▶ 0:00 Nathan Latka Started back in 2013 at a Techstars company, left in 2014 to join a YC company.
- ▶ 3:26 Ryan Kulp So I, I left that company and then jumped to a YC company called Keychain Logistics.
- ▶ 31:26 Nathan Latka Ryan Kopp started back in 2013 at a Techstars company, left in 2014 to join a YC company.
1751 SendBird Messaging SDK Sitting on $100m Cash, $20m in ARR
- ▶ 0:51 Nathan Latka He's the co-founder and CEO of Sendbird, a Y Combinator W-sixteen
- ▶ 2:20 John Kim and then we fully launched at the Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 Nathan Latka You get into YC with this idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:02 John Kim To be back by YC, but, uh, some, uh, well-known investors, uh, here in the area, uh, Shasta Ventures and August Capital at our series A, uh, of sixty million dollars.
- ▶ 20:51 John Kim Uh, it was recommended on Twitter by a multiple CEOs from YC.
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships
- ▶ 0:36 Nathan Latka He's an alumni of Y Combinator and has degrees in industrial engineering and business administration from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
- ▶ 9:38 Wade Foster You know, we went through YC, a big stakeholder for us, one of the larger stakeholders for us, and they continue to just provide a lot of useful value, even at the stage that we're at.
- ▶ 19:25 Nathan Latka But for example, YC's an investor, if they're able to see some of your backend and see which apps are actually taking off from, in terms of how many zaps per month, that allows them to make better investment decisions. 2 times in the scene
1693 He Gives Founders a CC, No Personal Gauruntee, Will Pass $1B GMV in 30 Day Period by 2020.
- ▶ 1:23 Enrique Dubugras And in the middle of Stanford, we got into Y Combinator, um, and in Y Combinator was actually a virtual reality idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36 Nathan Latka So you go through Y Combinator, you start working on Brex. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:49 Enrique Dubugras Um, so we, we check like how many companies we have, you know, across sectors, um, inside technology, uh, then the penetration, which went with NYC that we think is, you know, a good indicator of that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:30 Nathan Latka I'm a YC company.
- ▶ 14:27 Nathan Latka Uh, number, another YC company, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 Nathan Latka And then again, forming the idea for Brex going through YC.
1641 How He Helps Medical Devices Get To Market Faster, 0-$1m in ARR in 12 Months
- ▶ 7:23 Jared Seehafer We went through, ah, Y Combinator Accelerator, ah, you know, did a small friends and family round, ah, kind of just, when I was just getting started, um, then went, went through YC, and then raised, ah, seed stage round of capital, um, you…
- ▶ 10:53 Jared Seehafer Does YC.
- ▶ 10:56 Nathan Latka Does, does YC teach you guys to try and drive to cashflow positive before you go out and do a priced round? 4 times in the scene