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Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:17 Boris Cherny Maybe, like, don't listen to the LinkedIn influencers.
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:13 Mark Pincus And to me, that was the beginning of this people web, even though it was a bunch of years before we got to Friendster and Facebook and LinkedIn, my, my failed company tribe.
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:01 James Hawkins And look, I can remember it feeling weird, like on LinkedIn, for example, I would talk about like, hey, this is what we're up to, and it would be like one week, it was like some dev tool, the next week it's a CRM thing, um,
- ▶ 21:38 James Hawkins And so I'm just like sending emails and LinkedIn messages into the ether basically.
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:41 David Paffenholz If you're an engineer yourself, you might have received the same LinkedIn DMs, emails, and more.
- ▶ 7:23 David Paffenholz LinkedIn, as well as any other job boards.
- ▶ 8:57 David Paffenholz Uh, that's where you go to platforms like LinkedIn recruiter or juice box to help find top candidates for your role. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:57 David Paffenholz Uh, that's where you go to platforms like LinkedIn recruiter or juice box to help find top candidates for your role.
- ▶ 13:34 David Paffenholz So think emails plus LinkedIn steps. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:37 David Paffenholz In other cases, the Twitter strategy sometimes goes in that direction because, uh, even if it's a Twitter profile you recognize, it might not be like a LinkedIn profile that you would click into.
- ▶ 35:02 David Paffenholz I guess apart from like a Twitter, it's probably going to be on LinkedIn, but the advantage of email is that you're not just sending a single message. 4 times in the scene
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:50 Max Junestrand I had this good hack on LinkedIn.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:24 Dylan Field So folks that I had either interned with, for example, I interned at Flipboard, LinkedIn, uh, O'Reilly Media.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:16 Chas Englander This thing will go off and look at their LinkedIn and their background, and then look at like comparable companies on Crunchbase or S&P and so on, and kind of produce this one pager that you would probably go and do as a human as your…
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:55 Aravind Srinivas So when we saw that for the relational database searches like Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub, we knew that we had like, there was something magical about combining large language models in search.
- ▶ 19:08 Aravind Srinivas You can, like, for example, let's say you're hosting a Y Combinator event, and you say, I only want to accept Stanford dropouts, and it can go through the entire list of people who applied, and just filter based on who's, you know, to…
- ▶ 42:14 Aravind Srinivas You know, there are a lot of people who don't use Twitter or LinkedIn, and, and, and they're all, like, they all exist, we just are living in a bubble here.
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:35 unnamed speaker And like you work at something, uh, maybe at night, you know, after work, you can't really like go out on LinkedIn and advertise it because like your boss would see it.
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:27 Satya Nadella Like, you know, at LinkedIn, I think they took multiple of these functions, uh, the design function, the front end engineer function, the product function, put them all together and said, we're going to have full stack builders.
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:47 Aravind Srinivas Like, if coders could go and search about repos or LinkedIn, if you could, like, 2 times in the scene
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:09 Brad Flora I think, I think there's also some, like, fake it till you make it type thinking where, hey, um, oh, those people, I read about them raising a Series A in TechCrunch, and let me go on LinkedIn,
Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:43 Rujul Zaparde Try to sell them completely cold, like through cold LinkedIn outreach or whatever, but not referrals, not friends, not anyone we know, because if you can get 10 different people and 10 different companies in the world to, you know, take… 2 times in the scene
How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:14 Nicolas Dessaigne Start with your network, your previous colleagues or classmates, and then you expand from there, um, friends of friends, you can leverage LinkedIn, you can find, like, specific calls over there.
- ▶ 22:16 Nicolas Dessaigne They decided to change their title on LinkedIn
How To Convert Customers With Cold Emails | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:42 Aaron Epstein Mostly, you want to use your network and go through LinkedIn, all of your contacts, look up your friends, your friends of friends, current or former co-workers, your school alumni networks that you're a part of, and even employer alumni…
- ▶ 7:11 Aaron Epstein LinkedIn is usually worse. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Aaron Epstein You can use the LinkedIn sales navigator tool, which is a great way to find relevant people to reach out to and also contact.
- ▶ 16:00 Aaron Epstein You have to put in the work to research the company, find the right contact, look them up on LinkedIn, use their products so you understand at a deep level how it works, and then reach out to the person, and that's how you're going to be…
- ▶ 24:50 Aaron Epstein I saw your LinkedIn profile and took an educated guess in sending this email. 2 times in the scene
How To Price For B2B | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:39 Tom Blomfield Uh, sign more people up to our LinkedIn company account to act like we're a much, much bigger company to try and close these customers.
Enterprise Sales | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:08 Pete Koomen This video was recorded during the winter 24 batch and many founders in the current batch are using Apollo and LinkedIn sales navigator for that.
- ▶ 6:30 Pete Koomen Look on LinkedIn for shared connections and ask for an intro.
Building Confidence In Yourself and Your Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:17 Dalton Caldwell Is to cold email a bunch of people on LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:40 Dalton Caldwell We spammed 10 people on LinkedIn.
- ▶ 11:23 Dalton Caldwell Like how often do you respond to cold emails on LinkedIn?
- ▶ 17:45 Dalton Caldwell and you're way more efficient and it's better and it's, you know, we're building our MVP and like we're getting, we're, we're emailing people on LinkedIn now.
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:48 Brad Flora On Hacker News, you can find users on social media, Twitter, LinkedIn, everybody's on the internet today, and you can use that to find early people to try out your product.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:29 Kat Mignalek It's like Facebook meets LinkedIn meets Quora.
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:07 Gustaf Alströmer Then we want to send them an email or a LinkedIn message or add them on LinkedIn or whatever is the appropriate way to contact these people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Gustaf Alströmer They're not going to try a new product that comes in through your LinkedIn or your email, and they might not be the people that try a new product at all in their career. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:05 Gustaf Alströmer In this example, I'm sending 500 outreach emails or LinkedIn messages.
- ▶ 20:24 Gustaf Alströmer These are great tools that you can use either as a simple sales CRM or Hunter you can use to get contacts or potential people to email from LinkedIn.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:03 Gustaf Alströmer When asking YC founders how they found their early users, some of the most common answers were LinkedIn, Reddit forums, Slack or Discord communities, and sometimes in-person events.
- ▶ 4:57 Gustaf Alströmer I'm also going to reach out to people on LinkedIn that have titles like, um, uh, carbon or climate or sustainability. 3 times in the scene
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:07 Eric Migicovsky You mean like LinkedIn? 2 times in the scene
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:55 Iba Masood So, um, I, I think the most important thing is to meet with senior associates that have influence and how you can figure that out is really just go onto their LinkedIn and see how long have they been at the firm.
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:05:32 Cory Doctorow I mean, you know, Power Ventures was a company that scraped Facebook along with a bunch of its competitors like LinkedIn, put it all on a single dashboard. 3 times in the scene
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:50 Gustaf Alströmer So if you think of a LinkedIn or an Airbnb, sorry, LinkedIn or a Facebook, then having more people on the, on the product is going to make it better. 3 times in the scene
Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:38 Sarah Nahm And then I think what you have to start doing is getting really confident, reaching out to people that you believe are going to be strong fits at your company that you're finding, not just on LinkedIn, though you should, and then you'll…
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:00 Dan Hockenmaier I actually think like the legacy of that growth team, and then like Twitter and LinkedIn and the others that followed is actually maybe problematic when we think about some of the applications of growth later on, because they were applied…
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:35 Austen Allred With similar backgrounds, hired in engineering roles on LinkedIn.
- ▶ 10:29 Austen Allred So use LinkedIn's advanced search and search for schools that are XYZ, um, in locations that are this and with careers that are this.
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 53:03 Eric Migicovsky One of the coolest, like, hacks that you can do is just look through manually, slowly, look through your Facebook or LinkedIn, and just look at every person's name and think, is this person cool and technical?
SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 51:31 Eli Schwartz I like LinkedIn a lot. 3 times in the scene
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:02 Suhail Doshi I want to say it was like LinkedIn came out and said, we have two hundred million registered users. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:04 unnamed speaker If you're like, uh, create an account name and password and doing all that kind of signup versus a single, like, button login with, like, Google LinkedIn API, how does that, like, transfer?
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:12 Ooshma Garg They told me the idea was too niche or what have you, but really, no one was using LinkedIn at the time, and all of these students are looking for work, so I thought that we could really 2 times in the scene
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:19 Michael Seibel They could basically go to LinkedIn, find their customers on LinkedIn, find their normal addresses, email them. 2 times in the scene
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
Announcing Work at a Startup · Y Combinator
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:59 Liz Wessel So, to start, I have Reportive on my computer, which is this software that LinkedIn bought, but basically if you install it into Chrome and your Gmail, what you can do is you can figure out someone's email, if you can't find it already…
- ▶ 16:00 Liz Wessel What I will say is, number one, and this is not meant to be self-serving, but we have these profiles on Way Up that are, in my opinion, a much more holistic perspective on who you are versus a LinkedIn profile that's just your work… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:11 Craig Cannon Or if you just like can't communicate quite well enough through your, uh, way out profile or LinkedIn or whatever.
- ▶ 38:14 Liz Wessel Um, candidate sourcing is somewhat similar to LinkedIn, but as I mentioned, we have these amazing profiles that really show who you are in your best light. 2 times in the scene
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:56 Vivek Ravisankar We had no contacts, so we had to figure out a way to scramble through LinkedIn and Facebook.
Funding Is an Outcome of Building a Good Business - Porter Braswell of Jopwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:53 Craig Cannon So why are they looking for a platform like Jopwo versus just applying LinkedIn or whatever?
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:10 Craig Cannon And in it, Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, interviews Sam Allman.
- ▶ 48:38 Reid Hoffman Um, I'm just beginning, because we moved headquarters at LinkedIn to, ah, actually condition the office I want, and it's gonna have a lot of custom wood.
Founders of Science Exchange, Goldbely, and The Flex Company Discuss Fundraising · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:31 Vanessa Torridilla You look at their LinkedIn, you see what boards they're on, yeah. 2 times in the scene
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:15 Jeff Bussgang And I think what I say to people when I talk to young professionals who ask me that question is if you have high conviction that you're in the middle of a Google or a Facebook or a LinkedIn and you've got mentors and you've got a great…
From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:24 Reid Hoffman Yes, and actually, I mean, there's a bunch of different, ah, parts of hacks on this, so one of the things that I actually learned from when, ah, Sean Parker and Zuckerberg hired Kohler from LinkedIn, and, you know, I was talking to Kohler… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:54 Reid Hoffman When I realized this in early days of LinkedIn, what I did is I arranged a
- ▶ 35:42 Reid Hoffman Sometimes it may be the, like, for example, one of the things that LinkedIn did is we're virality, but then we also move to SEO as a component.