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How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator May 22, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 5:13 Garry Tan Basically there's, um, Delaware bylaws. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:40 Garry Tan I guess the Delaware C Corp thing is actually a pretty big thing. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:15 Eric Ries The problem is directors, especially under Delaware law, have extremely wide latitude to basically do whatever they want, as long as they can justify it as being, you know, in line with what it says in the charter. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:49 Eric Ries All you can do is a Delaware C Corp, everything standard, best practice, best practice.

Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Oct 10, 2018 · 1 mention

Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator Aug 29, 2018 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 2:41 Carolynn Levy Now, we, um, strongly recommend choosing Delaware. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:40 Carolynn Levy If your startup is a Delaware corporation, there is an annual tax you have to pay to that state, but if you calculate it correctly, the tax owed is really minor for startups.
  • ▶ 16:11 Carolynn Levy Into a corporation later, and for those of you who watched the 2014 startup school lecture, um, Kirstie and I told an anecdote about a company that was an LLC, and they had to convert into a Delaware Corp, and it was a 400,000 dollar legal…
  • ▶ 29:41 Jason Kwon So, uh, if you just file in Delaware, you're kind of C Corp by default.
  • ▶ 46:41 Jason Kwon Um, so the, uh, the technical answer is, yeah, there, there are ways, there are methods you could use to actually, um, conceal some of the information that the charters, the charters, the publicly filed document, people can pay, you know,… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:39 Jason Kwon The Delaware parent and one percent, you know, or some other small percentage by two or one or two local, um, Indian sort of representatives, and then that subsidiary is the one that then hires employees in India.

Carolynn Levy and Kirsty Nathoo - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2018 · 2 mentions

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:18 Tikhon Bernstam Um, but also investors are largely averse to, like, non-Delaware C-Corps, which a lot of these companies outside of the U.S. are. 2 times in the scene

Mark Zuckerberg : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Aug 16, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:14 Mark Zuckerberg I think probably, I think it became a, a, a formal Delaware company when Peter Thiel invested about six months in.
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