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Tarun Mehta: Good founders ignore Y Combinator advice and follow internal conviction
“Most good founders will be largely driven by their own thoughts. Most good founders are never doing the, what is the current advice or what is the current YC yarn to people. That's for mass consumption. That's content strategy. That's not a good advice on aver…”
Altman: The best founders are fast-adapting learners, not bravado-driven planners
“The best founders that I have watched up close throughout my career have all been more like the sort of quick learning and adapting style.”
Carl Pei: Y Combinator's primary value is brand signaling for future fundraising
“The capital is very little, actually, right?... But I think it's a branding thing, like once you have that brand on your resume, your next round will be a lot easier, and your next next round will be a lot easier.”
Kamath: Foundry gives 20-25 founders $500,000 each every six months
“I tried to copy Y Combinator and start our own version in India. It's called Foundry. We give about 20, 25 kids half a million dollars each every, ah, every like six months, and they live in a house and try to build consumer companies together.”