Y Combinator, every mention
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every year anyone Carl Pei 9Debargo "DD" Das 3Aadit Palicha 3Brian Armstrong 2Akshata Murty 2Tarun Mehta 1Sam Altman 1Nikhil Kamath 1Kaivalya Vohra 1Chamath Palihapitiya 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:02:23 Brian Armstrong So, um, in Silicon Valley, you know, there was, I went to Y Combinator and they had a startup incubator there. 2 times in the scene
Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 50:37 unnamed speaker I like all the stuff you've done at YC.
Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 3:01 Akshata Murty Like the Y Combinator, I think. 2 times in the scene
Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:20 Chamath Palihapitiya And do you do like YC, you take seven percent?
17 Young Founders | 8 Startups | 20 Lakh Grants | Third WTFund Cohort · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 0:27 Tarun Mehta Most good founders are never doing the, what is the current advice or what is the current YC yarn to people.
Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 25:41 Debargo "DD" Das I mean, you just have to, if you go on, like, say the YC, um, list, I mean, you're going to find every year has some patterns. 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 9:56 Sam Altman My predecessor, Paul Graham, had this answer that has always stuck with me for people and to give to founders, and it, it became the motto for Y Combinator, which is make something people want, and that sounds like such an easy instruction.
- ▶ 18:42 Nikhil Kamath And you probably know more about this than most because of your role at Y Combinator.
Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 5:54 Aadit Palicha And that's when, I guess when we were 1415, we started getting exposed to, you know, Y Combinator startup school. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:31 Kaivalya Vohra The CDC was December, 21, and it was led by Y Combinator's growth fund.