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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 45:57 Blake Scholl Do, uh, do founders need to move to San Francisco? 4 times in the scene
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:40 Sam Altman Um, you know, it used to be very heretical that YC told people they had to move to San Francisco.
How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:05 unnamed speaker Uh, if they start the company, should they start it here or should they go to New York or SF? 2 times in the scene
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:55 Mark Pincus I love being here in San Francisco, the motor city of the internet.
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:07 unnamed speaker We're hand selecting the most promising builders in the world and flying them out to San Francisco for July, 25th and 26th to discuss the cutting edge of tech and startups.
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:08 unnamed speaker We're hand-selecting the most promising builders in the world and flying them out to San Francisco for July
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:13 unnamed speaker We're hand selecting the most promising builders in the world and flying them out to San Francisco for July, 25th and 26th to discuss the cutting edge of tech and startups.
- ▶ 48:57 Eric Ries So I know a lot of people, even in San Francisco, like in San Francisco, there's a lot of turmoil right now. 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:20 Paul Graham And yet, it was the center of Silicon Valley, at least geometrically, um, until 2012 when that shifted to San Francisco.
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:22 Garry Tan Um, you know, what I learned in the years of working in San Francisco politics is that bringing together people is so powerful. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Garry Tan And so, you know, anyone can go to garyslist.org today and, you know, we do about two or three relatively, you know, researched, all fully sourced, um, articles about what's going on in California and San Francisco and LA and like, how do…
- ▶ 9:01 Garry Tan You know, San Francisco is the one city in the world that has the highest rate
- ▶ 20:35 unnamed speaker We're hand selecting the most promising builders in the world and flying them out to San Francisco for July, 25th and 26 to discuss the cutting edge of tech.
- ▶ 36:32 unnamed speaker It actually reminds me of rent, San Francisco rent. 4 times in the scene
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:21 unnamed speaker We're hand selecting the most promising builders in the world and flying them out to San Francisco for July, 25th and 26 to discuss the cutting edge of tech.
How Stripe Built Their New Website · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:22 unnamed speaker We're hand selecting the most promising builders in the world and flying them out to San Francisco for July, 25th and 26th to discuss the cutting edge of tech.
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
This Startup Catches Fraud at Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:02 Karine Malata So on a day-to-day basis, we're in person in San Francisco every day.
- ▶ 25:31 Karine Malata And we had just wrapped up one of the largest trust and safety conferences, uh, called TrustCon in, in San Francisco.
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:55 Mukund Jha Uh, we have a very small office in SF, like three to five people here. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:52 Madhav Jha And we are hiring here in SF. 2 times in the scene
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:08 James Hawkins Like we started in England and then came to San Francisco to do YC.
- ▶ 25:01 James Hawkins So we, like, we wrote a blog post, also during the YC batch, like, shortly after the launch of what it's like moving San Francisco students. 3 times in the scene
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…
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:49 Michael Truell But he became like sort of niche, very niche, like sort of niche, niche, niche of SF, micro celebrity.
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:36 Gustaf Alströmer So we tell WISE companies to move to San Francisco.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:22 Charlie Fearborn I'm a game designer here at a startup in San Francisco, and I graduated last year from USC in computer science and game design.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:24 Arne Englander I think, I think, again, working side by side with people building really cool products, working seven days a week, and that buzz, you know, around the office, around San Francisco, it's really, really hard to replicate.
- ▶ 42:25 Arne Englander I think we absolutely love San Francisco. 9 times in the scene
Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:19 Chelsea Finn Uh, and we collected robot data in homes across San Francisco here, uh, and also collected data in diverse mock kitchens and mock bedrooms.
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,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Aravind Srinivas What is the live weather right now in San Francisco?
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:01 Garry Tan And then, um, you know, one of the weirder things that I see people critique San Francisco about is somehow this belief that San Francisco itself is about, like, credential maxing, which, um, I don't, I mean, I, the part of San Francisco I… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:49 unnamed speaker Uh, I was pretty much pitched my idea to one of the founders and he basically said like, you know, drop out of school and come work for me, uh, move to San Francisco. 4 times in the scene
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:52 Satya Nadella Man, San Francisco, you should move to Seattle.
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:34 Sam Altman Startups of San Francisco, of the technology industry, of AI, of what all y'all, y'all will do, ah, like that is, that is like the natural space my brain abides, and it's very hard for me to really empathize with the other side of that,…
Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:10 Aadit Palicha Sitting in San Francisco, I'm sure.
How To Build A Truly Abundant Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:43 Derek Thompson And so while this book is absolutely about making abundant things that we know how to build, like say apartment buildings in San Francisco, a lot of it is about dreaming about the things that we haven't
What Founders Can Do To Improve Their Design Game · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:24 Raphael Schaad Um, tapping into, you know, networks such as, you know, Y Combinator or the Designer Fund here in San Francisco, um, that have built out these networks, kind of bringing designers more into tech companies early on.
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:14 Josh Reeves So Tomer was my, one of my roommates, uh, and Eddie was living in San Francisco at the time.
Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:33 Dylan Field So, for example, I remember going to a meeting when they finally said, we'll use it, let's give it a try, and we walked out, we're so stoked, and then we're driving home from there in Paul, so we're going back to SF.
AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:23 Aaron Epstein Yeah, I'm about to click on AI companies in San Francisco, and there's a lot that happens behind this. 2 times in the scene
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:40 Nicolas Dessaigne At some point, I remember, like, after raising money, so we had money in the bank, like, seed stage, and because I was, at that time, living in Paris, and I had to travel to SF very often, I would book a
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:06 Parker Conrad We both moved to San Francisco.
How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:23 David Lieb I had been working non-stop for the last 15 years, but I decided to, you know, on a whim go to One Medical on Valencia Street in San Francisco and get checked out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 David Lieb I remember when I got out, my wife picked me up, and we rolled the window down of the car, and I smelled the smells of San Francisco, and it was like the most amazing thing that I had ever experienced.
Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:14 Michael Seibel This is Michael Seibel with Dalton Caldwell, and today we're going to talk about, does your startup need to be in San Francisco?
- ▶ 0:44 Dalton Caldwell So let me start by saying I don't think everyone's startup needs to be in San Francisco to be successful. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:43 Michael Seibel So I, I live on Market Street in downtown San Francisco.
- ▶ 7:04 Dalton Caldwell And that, like, if moving to San Francisco means... 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:55 Michael Seibel And then you add in some choice photos of San Francisco, and it makes sense why people would say, why don't you do this anymore?
Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:39 Michael Seibel It was a huge moment in my, like, it literally was so valuable, like, it was immediately successful in San Francisco, and so this idea that, like,
The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:05 Michael Seibel One, I remember being in my twenties and being this like poor startup founder and seeing my friend in San Francisco, which isn't the most fun city, but that's another topic.
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:03 Brad Flora Which is a now departed cafe in San Francisco.
- ▶ 13:00 Brad Flora You see the founder, David, one of the CEO and co-founder by just meeting a bunch of investors in coffee shops in San Francisco.
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:50 Michael Seibel Well, you know, and to, to extend that point, what was so cool about San Francisco was it was the first place I went that just felt like I could be in a room full of weirdos.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:11 Gustaf Alströmer They actually spent a weekend together in San Francisco when Airbnb kind of launched.
Y Combinator Is Back In Person · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:00 Michael Seibel They're going to be able to go to weekly meetups in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 Michael Seibel Now, we're also seeing a lot more interest in San Francisco, and like, I don't know, like, that's a dirty word. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:22 Michael Seibel And so I think that a lot of that content marketing is unfortunately written by like people our age, people with kids, people living in San Francisco for like the last two years who were generally pissy about COVID. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:22 Michael Seibel We're going to do a massive alumni event in San Francisco in the fall.
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:08 Michael Seibel Like, we were, like, a website in San Francisco.
Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:50 Michael Seibel And there was a big conference going on in San Francisco, and they basically rented out room on their floor to host people so that they could make some money.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:50 Eric Migicovsky But as someone who lives in San Francisco, I can't like visualize that as much.
- ▶ 47:56 Michael Seibel So in the extreme beginning of Uber, what was so interesting was that it launched in San Francisco, and it launched as Uber Black, which is a really expensive product, actually. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:57 Eric Migicovsky And that was popular, like, that was popular with all the cool kids in San Francisco, and they still got, like, kneecapped.
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:47 Iba Masood I'd start, yeah, like I, I would, because like meetings sometimes would be in SF or they'd be in Menlo Park.
- ▶ 46:12 Amber Atherton I will say, so we moved our headquarters out here to San Francisco after our Series A.
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:21 Laks Srini I want a home that's about 30 minutes driving distance from San Francisco, that's close to good schools. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:31 Laks Srini I think, um, at Zenefits, I had, uh, built an engineering team that was like Vancouver, Bangalore, SF.
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:59 Matt Cutts That's cheaper in DC than in San Francisco right now.
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 58:29 Cory Doctorow You know, San Francisco was a nexus for, um, uh, gay liberation for lots of reasons, but one is it's like where the Navy used to discharge people who, men who had gotten into trouble for being gay. 3 times in the scene
Jared Friedman - Advice for Hard-tech and Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:01 Jared Friedman It will fly at Mach 2.2 and take you from San Francisco to Tokyo in five hours.
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:51 Gustaf Alströmer They went back to San Francisco, um, uh, back to Y Combinator, and, um, they sent an email the day, the morning after, and it said, here are all the photos we took of your house.
- ▶ 28:11 Gustaf Alströmer I live in San Francisco.
Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:56 Craig Cannon So New York, SF, LA. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 Jay Reno Uh, our, our now CTO who joined me out in San Francisco for the summer.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 22:48 Russ Roberts You see that, you know, we're in San Francisco.
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:38 Kevin Hale Who, who are having a shared experience or a shared ambition, and so I, I want to give that opportunity as many people as possible, not just the ones who can make it to San Francisco.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:00 Gustaf Alströmer It wasn't super useful to buy these keywords in San Francisco, but if you're in Europe, or in Asia, or in, or in Russia, or somewhere, it certainly was very important to kickstart those market.
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:07 Jeremy Rossmann Make School is a new college in San Francisco.
- ▶ 20:02 Jeremy Rossmann One of the things that's really fascinating when I talk to parents and students is that it takes a few times of repeating for people to be able to visualize that there is a new college in San Francisco, that we have a campus building.
Simone Giertz on Her Robots and Returning to Work After Brain Surgery · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:36 Simone Giertz Cause I was living in San Francisco.
Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:07 Michael Babineau But it also includes like other things like, um, you know, figuring out, um, for an Uber transaction, it says San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:35 Brian Halligan So I think I told you guys I've been out in San Francisco for the last month. 2 times in the scene
Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:14 Craig Cannon It was really good, but basically like, this was of the time when a sandwich video just happened, and every company was putting out the same kind of like soft music video with the big sweeping shots of San Francisco.
- ▶ 8:10 Jarvis Johnson So, I went to Yelp just to, like, try something new, and it was in San Francisco, and I didn't like living in the South Bay when I was entering at Google, uh, and didn't want to do a big commute.
- ▶ 56:28 Jarvis Johnson Um, I, you know, performed with a team, uh, in, in San Francisco, uh, for about a year doing like a weekly show or biweekly or whatever. 2 times in the scene
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:42 Austen Allred So, I was living in rural Utah before I moved to San Francisco, and when you move to San Francisco from a small town, and you see just the discrepancy in 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:21 Austen Allred Um, so like, I think the pool of high growth executive talent with 15 years of experience growing high growth companies is still largely concentrated in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
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.
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:19 Craig Cannon So you have the Toronto, and you have your San Francisco office. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:33 Karn Saroya Yeah, so, so look, like I, we were, we were all in San Francisco, uh, and decided to open a Toronto office, right?
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:44 Ryan Hoover I, I could financially support myself as I was tinkering and building, and a lot of people just don't, especially in San Francisco.
Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies · Y Combinator
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