California, every mention
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every year anyone Craig Cannon 14Vincent Ning 12Garry Tan 6David Hua 6Cory Doctorow 5Paul Buchheit 2Ooshma Garg 2Mike Knoop 2Karn Saroya 2Josh Reeves 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where California comes up
Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:04 Paul Graham Have you ever seen Mountain View, California?
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 2:59 Diego Saez-Gil That led me to California.
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:41 Cory Doctorow So California has a legislative prohibition 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:33 Cory Doctorow It's also the entertainment circuit because California has this dual nature.
Simone Giertz on Her Robots and Returning to Work After Brain Surgery · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 12:53 Mike Knoop So after, so obviously YC, uh, one of the things is moving out to California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:55 Kevin Hale And we also had relocated from California
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 12:13 Kalam Dennis I'm from California.
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:59 Craig Cannon But then ultimately you landed at Pinterest, moved out to California.
- ▶ 1:04:56 Brian Donohue It's in California here. 2 times in the scene
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
Cannabis Startup Founders David Hua and Vincent Ning on Legalization, Banking, and Industry Trends · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 6:45 Ooshma Garg And I was here in California. 2 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:53 Craig Cannon Or are you full on moved to California? 2 times in the scene
Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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