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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator Jul 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:39 Diana Hu And these are numbers around, for example, how long a cache mist takes, uh, disk seek, a network package traveling, let's say from California to Netherlands, um, lots of numbers like this about distributed systems and systems engineering.

Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator May 13, 2026 · 1 mention

Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator May 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:57 Garry Tan I realized that I wanted to bring together all the people who believed what I believed, um, particularly for California.
  • ▶ 5:36 Garry Tan And so, you know, anyone can go to garyslist.org today and, you know, we do about two or three relatively, you know, researched, all fully sourced, um, articles about what's going on in California and San Francisco and LA and like, how do…

BillionToOne Is Solving One of Biotech’s Hardest Problems · Y Combinator Apr 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:33 Jared Friedman I recently visited them at their lab in Union City, California to hear the full story.

The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator Dec 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:01 Garry Tan In California we have CEQA, which is totally abused by the environmental lobby to stop all innovation and building housing, by the way.

Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator Jul 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:28 Andrew Ng So I think typing up dangers, supposed false dangers of AI, in order to get regulators to pass laws, like the proposed SB-SB-Ten-Forty-Seven in California, which, thank goodness, we shut down,

How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator Apr 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:54 Aadit Palicha Actually supposed to come here in California and study, um, but the pandemic hit.

How To Build A Truly Abundant Future · Y Combinator Apr 4, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:32 Derek Thompson When California authorizes thirty three billion dollars to build a high-speed rail system that does not exist, that's a fantastically tragic example.
  • ▶ 6:12 Garry Tan Like, we still want high-speed rail in California, but, uh, the funny thing is, you know, I remember on Twitter watching people, uh, you know, protest in Sacramento about it, like, you know, don't defund it and things like that, but where… 3 times in the scene

DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:53 Tony Xu Dozens of the largest hospital networks, um, from UCSF or Stanford here in, in California to Mount Sinai on the east coast where we wanted to make sure that all the hospital workers and, and nurses, um, you know, could get free delivery…

From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator Mar 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:26 Josh Reeves Um, in California, you know, you could scope there, too, because every single state has different rules and requirements. 2 times in the scene

How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator Dec 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:52 David Lieb We got into YC, and the program was to come out to California for the summer for three months and build your startup.

Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator Jan 28, 2020 · 1 mention

Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator Nov 27, 2019 · 5 mentions

Simone Giertz on Her Robots and Returning to Work After Brain Surgery · Y Combinator Jun 5, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:52 Craig Cannon Well, I think that's like, that to me is the default, like, you know, East Coast criticism of California, and like, having come from the East Coast and then coming over here, um, there's all that earnestness, like, built in here.

Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator May 1, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:46 Craig Cannon And then like, how did you even end up moving to California? 2 times in the scene

Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2019 · 3 mentions

Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator Feb 27, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:50 Karn Saroya Like a single auto policy that we sell in California, the average premium is something like 1600 dollars.
  • ▶ 25:17 Karn Saroya Uh, and then like two weeks later, we flew from Toronto to California, right?

Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator Dec 14, 2018 · 1 mention

Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator Nov 14, 2018 · 3 mentions

The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:31 Paul Buchheit I didn't know anyone who worked at a startup, um, but I suspected they were like in California. 2 times in the scene

A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:58 Elad Gil In the state of California, we could only find two or 300 CLSs total, and we had to hire two or three of them. 2 times in the scene

Cannabis Startup Founders David Hua and Vincent Ning on Legalization, Banking, and Industry Trends · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2018 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 6:12 Craig Cannon Are, are more people buying edibles since it's become legalized in California?
  • ▶ 18:23 Vincent Ning It's a type 11 distribution license in California.
  • ▶ 19:58 David Hua I mean, 90% of the shops are, are mom and pop, uh, right now in California. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:05 Vincent Ning Yeah, I mean, for us, we kind of say it's the end of prohibition in California, and, um, I don't know if this is the case anymore, but a couple years ago, uh, including the black market, 80% of the cannabis in the United States came out of… 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:54 Craig Cannon And is the same thing is true in Colorado and the other, I mean, who, I assume California is the biggest state in terms of volume. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:41 David Hua And in that, uh, this iteration, there was a proposed reg on allowing delivery operators to deliver anywhere into the state, even in prohibited areas, which is in contention with, uh, the chiefs of police, the league of cities that, uh,…
  • ▶ 43:23 Vincent Ning Um, and, but until then, the way we have to expand is, although we're currently in California, we actually have to set up a different, uh, legal entity in each state, um, so that we segregate out our business so it's not interstate…
  • ▶ 44:53 David Hua Yeah, I mean, I think, um, in California, in five years, we're hitting, what, twenty-twenty-three? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:03 Craig Cannon So what's like, what's going on with that in California?
  • ▶ 1:01:10 Vincent Ning I, uh, when we first started this, uh, we had a friend who basically ran, like, a pre-roll company that was distributing across California, and prior to regulation, this year is very much just like a backpacking industry where people would… 2 times in the scene

Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator Oct 10, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:58 Ralph Goody Plain Grid's used to build all, ah, in California, most, most hospitals, most jails, most heavy civil road work were used on all the tech campuses, all of the different government buildings that go up.

A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2018 · 2 mentions

Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator Aug 30, 2018 · 2 mentions

Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator Aug 29, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 17:53 Carolynn Levy So in California, for example,
  • ▶ 21:24 Carolynn Levy And it's okay for consultants to be paid for services with just stock, but you have to first get comfortable that your friend is properly classified as an independent contractor, and the rules in California about this just changed and got…
  • ▶ 43:10 Jon Levy It's required if you have, if you're taking somebody's information, you have to have a privacy policy up on your website or your app in California.

Jocko Willink and Mike Sarraille - Helping Veterans Transition into the Private Sector · Y Combinator Jul 20, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:17:53 Jocko Willink We're doing this one October 17th and 18th in San Francisco, California, and obviously we got clients up there that it makes it easy for them.

Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator May 31, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:36 Liz Wessel So, the story of the way up, the high level is my senior year, I'm happy to tell, like, the funny version of it, uh, from college, but my, the, the high level is my senior year, um, JJ and I worked on a project together that would help…

Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator May 2, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:37 Linda Xie So you're already seeing, I actually know a few people that are trying to move out of California, especially because California has really high taxes.

Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator Mar 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:35 unnamed speaker You're like, okay, we're going to stay in California at this point.

Carolynn Levy and Kirsty Nathoo - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:08 Kirsty Nathoo Um, it doesn't matter if they're in Delaware, or if they've incorporated in California, or where, wherever else it might be.

It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo · Y Combinator Jan 24, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:38 Sam Chaudhary In computer science focused on technology in classrooms, and so it really came from more like a passion for education-y stuff, and when we turned up in California to do Imagine K-II, like, we, we basically didn't know anyone in America at…

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

  • ▶ 53:20 unnamed speaker And, and, and the word tech is, you know, they should, they should move to California or other places.

Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:38 Kor Adana I moved from Michigan to California, knowing in the back of my mind, like, all right, it's going to happen.

Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator Sep 4, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:05 Laura Behrens Wu And other than like, we ship the accessories, but I don't think marijuana is allowed to be shipped even in California.
  • ▶ 23:07 Craig Cannon I, I once shipped my bike from Colorado to California. 2 times in the scene
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