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Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator May 13, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:04 Max Hodak And I, I was first clued into the need here about a decade ago when I read an article in, in a medical journal called The Lancet, which was this case study of a, the seventeen-year-old living in Boston who was waiting for a lung transplant.

Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator Dec 11, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 May 8, 2019 · 2 mentions

Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Feb 15, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 10, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 11, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 7, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 2, 2018 · 3 mentions

Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator Jan 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 13, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jul 1, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jun 23, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:58 Ed Baker He was, um, a launcher, then was our general manager in Boston, and then started, basically headed up product for the growth team, so it was really valuable to have the person who was running product for growth be one of these…

How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Jun 21, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 23, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Oct 11, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:05 Kalam Dennis Uh, we're going to be expanding to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston in the next few months.
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