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How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:51 unnamed speaker Uh, that's how you, you met, and then you ended up working in New York. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:09 Olivier Pomel So after that, the things got worse in New York.
- ▶ 8:08 Olivier Pomel We were in New York. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:05 unnamed speaker Uh, if they start the company, should they start it here or should they go to New York or SF?
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:04 Pedro Franceschi But to me, I think what's the most fascinating is when you look into the sort of ten-mile radius we're in now, uh, and maybe you include New York, um, tons of token consumption and, and, and, and you could probably argue, and, and we see…
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:44 David Paffenholz Now, while that's a little bit less so the case on the sales side, if you're hiring in a competitive market like San Francisco or New York, your sales roles are also going to be very competitive, and you'll want to put the same amount of…
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:57 Max Junestrand And our initial conversations in the US sometime, because we were a small Swedish startup, um, so I made, you know, multiple trips back and forth to New York. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:45 Gustaf Alströmer You opened an office in New York.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:41 Chas Englander Um, uh, about half of our overall team are based in London, and we have an office in New York.
- ▶ 45:15 Chas Englander Well, I spent the bulk of my time in New York, Arne spends the bulk of his time in London, um, and then kind of split between Hong Kong and San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:18 Aravind Srinivas You cannot, like, if, if, if people can get answers to best hotels to stay in San Francisco with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge or like Bay Bridge, or like where can I stay in New York, like next to the Central Park with good amenities,…
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:01 Sam Altman When I like use my phone today, I feel like I am like walking down Times Square in New York, getting like bumped into by people.
How To Build A Truly Abundant Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:24 Derek Thompson And hear that their friends are taking the long weekend to fly on a supersonic jet from New York to London, and the jet is using clean fuel.
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:57 Michael Seibel So I spent my high school and middle school years in a suburb of New York. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:02 Michael Seibel And we can talk about all the reasons why, but if you want to be the best in finance, you're probably going to find yourself in New York.
- ▶ 9:14 Dalton Caldwell It's all the people that you won't meet, all the chance encounters you won't have, all the employees you won't have, like all these surface areas for luck, you know, I like to talk about how to maximize luck, you know, think about how many… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:13 Michael Seibel I can be in the game in New York.
- ▶ 12:52 Michael Seibel MongoDB is in New York, and I've been told that by every fucking New York founder. 2 times in the scene
The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:15 Michael Seibel Um, and seeing my friends in New York who were in banking and finance and stuff, going out and having fun. 2 times in the scene
Y Combinator Is Back In Person · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:51 Dalton Caldwell New York too.
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:56 Diego Saez-Gil And then that journey led me to New York City to do an internship. 3 times in the scene
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 48:40 Michael Seibel In the beginning, they solved, like, a really hilarious pain point, and if Uber had launched in New York City, it wouldn't have worked. 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
- ▶ 46:17 Amber Atherton So we were in London, and we had a New York office, and then I just decided, let's consolidate this.
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:43 Laks Srini Seattle, Denver, Austin, um, Salt Lake, um, DC, New York, Boston, and all of these cities, like, are viable markets for us.
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:38 Gustaf Alströmer Most of our hosts are in New York. 2 times in the scene
Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:27 Jay Reno Um, the first was I had moved seven times in the nine years I've lived in New York City, and that's just above average, actually.
- ▶ 14:17 Jay Reno You know, you just moved to New York.
- ▶ 20:56 Craig Cannon So New York, SF, LA. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:26 Jay Reno It's a little like coming down from a high, I think, um, where you're at Demo Day, and there's so many people there, and they're all there to see you, and all of your batchmates, and there's just so much buzz, and then imagine you raise…
EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:39 Russ Roberts I interviewed Alex Warner Shelley, who's the, uh, on Chopped and runs a high-end restaurant in New York City called Butter.
Camille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:10 unnamed speaker But even the core values of Amazon aren't necessarily the core values of, like, AWS based in New York.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:36 Gustaf Alströmer Like, if you want to live in New York, um, your options were to live in a hotel in Midtown versus living somewhere in a real neighborhood where there's, there are real people, and you can go down to the corner and, and grab a coffee just…
- ▶ 19:45 Dan Hockenmaier Their, uh, NPS would actually, like, you could watch it spike at a certain number of quotes, and so the metric we were going on was the number of customer requests that had that many quotes, and actually our liquidity metric in each…
- ▶ 37:32 Dan Hockenmaier You know, a couple examples of a place I think it's used very effectively is to seed a new market you might be launching, for example, um, or at Thumbtack or other marketplaces very often used to help balance the marketplace, because it… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:44 Gustaf Alströmer So if you go to New York, and you stayed in an apartment that was in a local neighborhood, and you just had a very unique experience that you never had before, it is fundamentally something you talk about when you come home.
Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:34 Michael Babineau So he's in New York.
- ▶ 50:22 Michael Babineau They are, uh, extraordinarily well connected, you know, like in New York City, in the East Coast with not just investors, um, but also with companies, right?
Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:56 Jarvis Johnson I've, I've definitely tried to draw out this like narrative into a bunch of videos, but the basic, the basic story is that I, a friend of mine, uh, who's still like a, a really like great friend of mine who lives in New York turned me on… 2 times in the scene
Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:49 Marques Brownlee I remember the first event I ever went to was a Samsung event in New York City, where I met a YouTuber for the first time.
- ▶ 6:23 Marques Brownlee There's some New York for you.
- ▶ 20:47 Craig Cannon Well, it's very, we did a podcast with Jessica Brillhart, who's a VR creator in New York, and, um, it's a difficult storytelling challenge, because, like, with film, you're inherently, like, controlling the viewpoint of your audience.
- ▶ 41:03 Marques Brownlee And then there's nights, which are either, like, the leagues I play in, or practice, or, so I play for the, the pro ultimate team for New York.
YC's Director of Events Domonique Fines with Elpha CEO Cadran Cowansage · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:20 Domonique Fines So last year, this past year, I did, um, three female founders conferences, one in New York, one in Seattle and one in San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies · Y Combinator
Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:09 Reham Fagiri App Deco is a marketplace for buying and selling furniture, uh, based here in New York City.
- ▶ 6:36 Reham Fagiri So we didn't know we were in, but I had already, I decided not to take the job that I came to New York for and ended up just doing this full time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:28 Reham Fagiri But New York is, I think, I think in New York, because people don't have cars, um, it's much harder, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:02 Reham Fagiri In New York, ABC Carpet and Home, but it's only a brand in New York. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:16 Kalam Dennis Uh, one, or there's 6000 subway cars in New York City and we were in one in six.
- ▶ 50:38 unnamed speaker Um, did you guys do the New York City back and forth during YC? 2 times in the scene
Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 54:29 Leonard Susskind It's as if you had a tunnel, New Jersey, New Jersey, New York city, uh, the Holland tunnel or the Lincoln tunnel.
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:19 Andrew Kortina Yeah, uh, I mean, I think about this a lot when I go to a supermarket, um, and I guess, I don't know, when you, I got into the habit of like, going to just like, you know, uh, like a bodega in New York for a long time, if I needed…
- ▶ 56:18 Andrew Kortina I mean, the Lucas, those were really, these, they were these subways that we did, uh, for Venmo in New York. 2 times in the scene
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:11 Brian Donohue Um, there were two large media companies in New York and one, one media company on the west coast. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:07 Brian Donohue So, um, yeah, Betaworks is in New York. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:07 Brian Donohue I found that when I was offline, so for instance, when I was in New York City in the subways, um, back in 2014, 2015, um, there was no internet service, and so there's nothing else to do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:32 Brian Donohue I think, you know, if you live in New York, there's, you kind of get sucked into the city and the vibe in the Bay area is very different.
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:08 Calvin French-Owen Uh, we have our headquarters in San Francisco, but we also have offices in Vancouver, New York, and Dublin.
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- ▶ 54:05 Patrick Collison Um, I mean, we're, we're trying to build this kind of, um, this economic infrastructure for the internet and this sort of platform for globalization and kind of, um, I don't know, sort of, uh, technological progress in the sense that, uh,…
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:50 Ooshma Garg Um, I met him a few weeks ago at a wedding in New York, and he was like, are you Ushma?
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:57 Peter Reinhardt So we went on this sales trip to New York, myself and our, and our first salesperson, uh, Raf, and we met with five customers that were using this S three bucket.
David Zeevi on Personalized Nutrition Based on Your Gut Microbiome · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:20 David Zeevi Thing I, I, I can tell about New York is that it's harder to find fresh vegetables here.
- ▶ 50:29 Craig Cannon So now you've been in New York, you said for like a year after you were, were you in Israel your whole life?
Jocko Willink and Mike Sarraille - Helping Veterans Transition into the Private Sector · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:17:37 Jocko Willink From there, we went to New York.
Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:06 Jessica Livingston This is actually, ah, the fifth year we've done the Female Founders Conference, and our first time in New York.
- ▶ 5:57 Jessica Livingston And after Fidelity, I worked in investor relations in New York City, um, then at food and wine magazine, and at an automotive consulting firm, and I, I even worked briefly for a wedding planner.
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:03 Liz Wessel JJ went traveling around the world as a backpacking freelancing web developer, and then as all good backpackers do, went to McKinsey in New York.
- ▶ 7:24 Craig Cannon I, um, one of the people I really admired, um, in San Francisco when I was still living in New York, I emailed, cold emailed him, Skyped him, and I was like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:04 Liz Wessel I love walking around New York, so I guess that's exercise.
- ▶ 28:24 Craig Cannon Um, what's it like now having, you know, you've been at OYC for a couple years, you're obviously here in New York.
- ▶ 46:56 Craig Cannon But how I had to make ends meet while living in New York was less fun, like working at night. 2 times in the scene
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:24 Sean Mitchell You look at the leasing process, so, you know, particularly I, I leased in, in New York. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:11 Sean Mitchell If it's a three bedroom versus a studio, um, you know, the right part of New York, the right part of, of San Francisco, um, you know, you're gonna drive a meaningful, meaningfully different amount of traffic.
- ▶ 30:43 unnamed speaker It's pretty standard for New York or San Francisco.
- ▶ 38:16 Sean Mitchell Like, there, there are apartments, there are apartments in New York where you'll, you know, they'll give you a year worth of Netflix, they'll give you, um, an Amazon Echo. 4 times in the scene
Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:08 Patrick Moberg Uh, so Dots started as sort of this, um, little art project, um, that was born at Betaworks, uh, which is an incubator investor in New York City.
Funding Is an Outcome of Building a Good Business - Porter Braswell of Jopwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:15 Porter Braswell No, so we, we then, um, we then actually applied to New York Techstars.
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:58 Reid Hoffman He said, look, go to New York.
- ▶ 45:50 Sam Altman In New York, it's finance and DC and politics. 3 times in the scene
Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:03:53 Des Traynor Like is in, there's a company in New York called Lemonade that took a really, really nice approach to insurance for property. 2 times in the scene
There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:59 Kevin Slavin It's a roundabout way to get to the question of if I have a gut biome that's distinct from your gut biome, does New York City have a gut biome
- ▶ 37:15 Craig Cannon Well, I'm just going to go everywhere in the world now, and I'm going to do tangible scientific research, but instead you're like, I'm going to go back to New York where I'm from, and I'm going to work at a cultural institute. 4 times in the scene
Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 54:11 Kat Manalac And so, I think, you know, working, you know, I was in, you know, at Wired, and then, yeah, and then in New York, and I think around the 20 12 time frame, like, there was so much positivity about tech, right?
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:00:06 Casey Neistat I want to leave, leave New York City, um, in the next three to five years. 4 times in the scene
Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:27 Michelle Kuo It involved over 40 engineers and artists, and it was this performance series that took place in New York in, um, at the Armory, which was a huge cavernous space, and basically to get, to make the performance, what became the performance… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:07 Michelle Kuo You have the sort of who's who of the New York art world, but also of the avant-garde demimonde, and they're all there en masse, and they're all really mad because they're waiting.
- ▶ 20:41 Michelle Kuo So they decided to, uh, build or renovate a townhouse in New York, um, to create a center for job training 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:42 Michelle Kuo In, ah, Ahmedabad, India, in Stockholm, in Tokyo, in New York, in LA, and they were
- ▶ 59:58 Michelle Kuo One show at the Museum of Manorah in New York was the Rauschenberg exhibition, and that covered some of this material.
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:37 Ryan Hoover Of course, San Francisco being a major one and New York and some other cities in the U S but there's also, um, you know, places like Paris and Berlin and other places around the world that have these communities of people who love startups…
The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves - Rana Adhikari of LIGO · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:10:46 Rana Adhikari I mean, one way is making things longer, as people said, but I, what I gather from this question, um, I'm reading between the lines here, but is there some, like, uh, there's a good Elon Musk story where I think his, his analogy is, like,… 2 times in the scene
Founders of Science Exchange, Goldbely, and The Flex Company Discuss Fundraising · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:23 Vanessa Torridilla Um, through us, you can experience places like Momofuku Milk Bar and Magnolia Bakery in New York.
Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:18 Emily Weiss Uh, so the one common thread, um, that still motivates all of us at Glossier today, and we're, you know, 95, uh, uh, people in Soho, in New York, we're actually 77% women.
- ▶ 14:21 Emily Weiss So, you know, I guess we've reinvented it in the sense of direct to consumer online, but we also are, you know, going into, like, our own retail, and we have a showroom in New York that's more like an art gallery or like a clubhouse than…
Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:49 Craig Cannon Um, and, uh, uh, at MoMA in New York. 2 times in the scene
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:34 Jeff Bussgang If I'm in, if I'm in the middle of a startup, if I'm trying to transform myself, you know, who knows, but if I'm in the middle of a startup that's going well in New York or in Tel Aviv or in Boston or in Silicon Valley, you know,
Rick and Morty Writer: Ryan Ridley · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:21 Ryan Ridley When I moved to Chicago, I worked, you know, the people in Detroit were comedy people in Detroit who were, you know, if you're really serious, you move to Chicago, LA, or New York.
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