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Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:59 Aaron Epstein There was a Harvard there.
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:00 Dalton Caldwell One of them was named Harvard, you know, like, and it made sense because I was familiar with the Facebook product at the time, which was like a college social network that was at like eight colleges. 2 times in the scene
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:57 Michael Seibel You know, the classic, I guess now old example of this was Facebook at Harvard, like as long as the Harvard kids were using it, or even a class, even just one of the grades in Harvard was using the product, it was useful.
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:09:55 Joe Betts-Lacroix Uh, and, um, just like McGill is the Harvard of the north.
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:54 Jeremy Rossmann And any student who's considering to attend, attending a school that offers that kind of education needs to be conscious of the fact that the, the flagship schools, the Harvard's and the Yale's and the Princeton's, they do practically… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:48 Jeremy Rossmann Harvard is going to be more obviously recognized as a luxury good, as an expensive purchase that works for the elites. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:02 Craig Cannon Like everyone thinks like, oh, well, you know, Bill Gates and Zuck and like all these people dropped out of Harvard. 2 times in the scene
YC's Director of Events Domonique Fines with Elpha CEO Cadran Cowansage · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:11 Domonique Fines oh, well you went to, you had to go to MIT, or did you go to Harvard, or, you know, like, what's your, what's your tech background?
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:14 Calvin French-Owen We couldn't tell you how, uh, college students at Harvard were using the tool differently than students at MIT, or we couldn't tell you how anthropology classes used it differently than biology classes.
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:11 Paul Graham Like, when he showed up at Harvard, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:11 Geoff Ralston And, you know, it just turns out that usually people who are in school and then stop to start companies, it's like, you know, there are dropouts from Harvard, we know the classic examples, but if you have, like, if you drop out and just go…
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:31:49 John Preskill But when, the first time, I was still at Harvard at the time, but I didn't, and I taught a similar course here.
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:17 unnamed speaker If I get into Harvard or I'll go to college.
A.I. Policy and Public Perception - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
Anne Wojcicki : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:03 Anne Wojcicki We should, like, instead of relying on Stanford or Harvard or Pfizer to go and solve a disease or, like, how to be healthy, we, the people, we can do it.
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:07 Craig Cannon Like you get an MBA at Harvard, you start working at these big companies.
It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:18 Sam Chaudhary Um, and so that was the first time we ever did anything about this, like bringing new ideas to your classroom, and then we did a follow-up with Harvard on empathy, with, with Yale on mindfulness, and there's more coming.
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:00 Casey Neistat It was about YouTube and meeting with his, his son who was on his way to Harvard, and, and it was a, it was a broader conversation.
Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:05 Mr. Money Mustache Secondly, that sounds like kind of a, you know, that's beyond, because school kind of has like this exponential thing at the top of the cost where you get into ridiculous costs for no reason, like the private ones, whereas you can go to…
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:54 Tikhon Bernstam it was another year after YC, so, uh, we, we, we scratched by on that, and not, I mean, being a, you know, being a wealthy grad student, no, um, so having zero savings, like, for really any of us, because Tripp had just left Harvard, Jared… 2 times in the scene
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:45 Jeff Bussgang So, at Harvard, we've tried to create
- ▶ 13:56 Michael Seibel So in other words, you know, if we can't make it to the 50% of the folks who are at HBS, um, know how to code, can we create a class where we grab people who do know how to code from elsewhere in Harvard? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:26 Jeff Bussgang Yeah, look, I think it's hard if it's, if it's on a platter for you at Stanford and at MIT and Harvard, and it's not on a platter for you in other environments where you can't just walk out the door and take a lift and, or a subway and…
- ▶ 24:15 Jeff Bussgang Because if I spend the two years stepping off the treadmill at a Harvard or a Stanford or an MIT, I'm gonna come back with a network
Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:57 unnamed speaker There's a statistic that's saying it's now harder to get into Wicom and then getting, getting into Harvard.
Jessica Livingston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:14 Jessica Livingston I mean, remember when we started Y Combinator, our, um, hypothesis was, oh, we'll just fund all the best hackers from MIT and Harvard, and they'll turn out to be great startup founders.
Mark Zuckerberg : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:57 Mark Zuckerberg There was nothing that was, like, super interesting there, but that just struck me as, you know, people have this deep thirst to understand what's going on with, with those around them, and, um, you know, there were probably, you know, 10…
- ▶ 2:20 Mark Zuckerberg I, I built the first version of Facebook because it's something that my friends and I wanted to use, uh, at Harvard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:02 Mark Zuckerberg There were a number of people who joined who were, you know, people I did problem sets with at Harvard or they dropped out of Stanford or, you know, different programs who have grown with the company over this long period of time.
- ▶ 24:09 Mark Zuckerberg We, we told Harvard that we were taking one semester off. 2 times in the scene