Jared Friedman, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Jared Friedman comes up
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:42 Garry Tan You're 22 now, but when you were 17, you had reached out to Jared Friedman, one of our partners here at YC. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:35 Aadit Palicha And so Jared would push us saying, okay, you know, you're getting good verbal feedback, but are people really repeating?
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:30 Tikhon Bernstam Um, and so, yeah, so I dropped out of grad school and, uh, moved, moved to Cambridge, um, and so then, yeah, me, Tripp, and Jared probably worked on, like, Scribd for at least, uh, well, yeah, we worked on Scribd for at least, like, a year…
- ▶ 2:18 Tikhon Bernstam Um, and so, similarly, like, Scribd actually was actually the merger of me, Tripp, and Jared, like, during YC, uh, they were working on some other project, um, uh, and, like, it was like a Craigslist for colleges.
- ▶ 6:50 Tikhon Bernstam So Trip Jared and I, uh, worked for months basically out of, out of his living room and without the generosity of his parents to even let us do that.
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 37:12 Craig Cannon It's a, there's so many companies that are just like, we see it with YC and Jared actually wrote a post about it last year, the startup zeitgeist, like all the trends, like people often don't pay attention to the unsexy, but like giant…