Boston, every mention
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every year anyone Paul Graham 4Jeff Bussgang 3Drew Houston 3Avni Patel Thompson 3Jessica Livingston 2Calvin French-Owen 2Brian Halligan 2Paul Buchheit 1Max Hodak 1Laks Srini 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Boston comes up
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:25 Paul Graham Dropbox was from Boston, and this was a Boston batch, right? 4 times in the scene
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:43 Laks Srini Seattle, Denver, Austin, um, Salt Lake, um, DC, New York, Boston, and all of these cities, like, are viable markets for us.
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:56 Brian Halligan That's what we drink back there in Boston.
- ▶ 14:33 Brian Halligan We had raised, we raised a million of Angel in Boston, uh, pretty early on, and then, yeah, we did a series A.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:18 Dalton Caldwell Again, like, I think they raised fine, but there was not this, like, hot buzz, oh, Ginkgo Bioworks, they're from Boston.
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:38 Calvin French-Owen Uh, we built it out over the course of the summer, and we deployed it back in Boston in the fall, and the whole thing just kind of crashed and burned. 2 times in the scene
Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:45 Jessica Livingston So he took me back to Boston, where my grandmother lived, and I lived with my grandmother during the week while my dad worked, and I lived with my dad on weekends.
- ▶ 6:13 Jessica Livingston In 2003, I was working in the marketing department at an investment bank in Boston when I first met Paul Graham at a party at his house one night.
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:08 Paul Buchheit Gone to Boston to meet the Summer Seven batch, which was only like 19 companies, so it wasn't that hard.
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:53 Avni Patel Thompson It started there in Boston and then my husband was asked to move to China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:41 Avni Patel Thompson Um, there have been other instances that my husband moved, for example, to Boston when I was doing school there.
Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:03 unnamed speaker Um, and when I first started to think about blogging, I actually was blogging on the side for like six years before I started Way, But Why, I didn't look necessarily to, well, early on, Bill Simmons, you know, in college, I was one of, in…
Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:07:40 Des Traynor I didn't know it at the time, but I gave a seven minute talk, uh, in Boston, maybe five years ago, six years ago called product strategy means saying no.
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 56:52 Juan Benet And that coupled with the excitement around all of the stuff that was happening in Silicon Valley in the fifties and sixties with, you know, a number of people kind of moving out and then coming back and, and, you know, talking about all…
Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:03 Jeff Bussgang I mean, we have an entrepreneur in Boston that's an AI in Kentucky, and he just hustled his way to build a network of angel investors and software developers and AI specialists, and has become really plugged in 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:34 Jeff Bussgang If I'm in, if I'm in the middle of a startup, if I'm trying to transform myself, you know, who knows, but if I'm in the middle of a startup that's going well in New York or in Tel Aviv or in Boston or in Silicon Valley, you know,
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:21 Drew Houston Uh, the sort of origin story of the company was when I was riding the Chinatown bus from Boston, New York, and forgot my thumb drive.
- ▶ 3:08 Drew Houston And, uh, Arash was having a pretty similar experience to one that I was having, which is we had friends who had moved from Boston, who dropped out of school, moved from Boston, settled in San Francisco, suddenly their companies are raising… 2 times in the scene
Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:05 Kalam Dennis Uh, we're going to be expanding to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston in the next few months.