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Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:15 Alexandr Wang Um, and I had a friend who was really into programming, um, and, you know, after high school got an internship in the Valley. 2 times in the scene
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:08 Paul Graham Should you go to Silicon Valley? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:56 Paul Graham Investors in Silicon Valley, have any of you tried to raise funding from investors in Europe? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:08 Paul Graham So that's what happens in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:19 Paul Graham Um, but in a sense, this is not as misleading as it sounds, because it's evidence of another of the great advantages, advantages of Silicon Valley. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:59 Paul Graham Um, if you go to Silicon Valley and then come back, you're helping Sweden in three ways. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:24 Paul Graham Um, you could make it the Silicon Valley of Europe. 4 times in the scene
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:20 Amjad Masad And so here in Silicon Valley, we look around us and we're like, Oh, what else is left to build?
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:34 unnamed speaker How would it be different if you had built a normal Silicon Valley style company that was all based here?
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:17 Raphael Schaad And, um, and of course they had to be sort of like a loner from some like tiny country, like far away from Silicon Valley, just like, you know, bring all of this upon us.
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:35 Spencer Skates One, I hired a new engineering leader, this guy, Wade Chambers, who's a Silicon Valley legend.
- ▶ 34:15 Spencer Skates I mean, I've been extraordinarily lucky, and this is one of the great parts of Silicon Valley, is there's such a,
Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:10 Jordan Fisher And if you've followed along the history of Silicon Valley or the history of humanity, the truth is a huge majority of people are misaligned, right?
- ▶ 25:07 Jordan Fisher I want to just like touch on one, one thing that's like always inspired me about Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:16 Amjad Masad Doesn't matter if you're in Silicon Valley or anywhere else in the world.
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:05 Jared Friedman It is a really hot topic in Silicon Valley right now.
- ▶ 3:15 Jared Friedman Exploding in Silicon Valley was invented.
- ▶ 7:56 Bob McGrew Well, I mean, there's two angles as one is, uh, we talked to a lot of those people early on and they said, why the hell would I work with a Silicon Valley company when I could work with, you know, a big five defense prime?
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:35 Arne Englander And, and we always thought, you know, being from the UK, this San Francisco buzz, Silicon Valley, it's a bit of a myth.
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:51 Dr. Fei-Fei Li And in Silicon Valley language, I fundraised, I, I was the founder, CEO, I, I was also the cashier and all the other things, and I exited.
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:03 Josh Reeves I've lived and breathed software since I was young, but there was something that all three of us really were drawn to, which is like tackling a problem that, you know, wasn't just for Silicon Valley, right?
- ▶ 7:26 Josh Reeves I love being in tech, you know, I went to Stanford, I studied electrical engineering, I've lived and breathed software since I was young, um, but there was something that all three of us really were drawn to, which is, like, tackling a…
How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:22 David Lieb Um, we had a bunch of friends throughout the valley that knew various people at Google, and I just used every single pathway I could to get support to build Google Photos, and eventually, uh, we won the battle, and, uh, we were given the…
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:48 Sam Altman I read a few books on, like, the history of Xerox Park and Bell Labs and stuff, and I think there were a lot of people, like, it was in the era of Silicon Valley at the time, that we need to, like, have good research labs again, and I just…
Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:17 Aaron Epstein Katie has led design teams at some of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley, like Lyft, Airbnb, and now Stripe.
Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:26 unnamed speaker And this essay transformed the culture of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 3:20 Jared Friedman Like it actually transformed, not overnight, but over the years that followed, it actually transformed Silicon Valley culture, and it became ingrained in the psyche of the current generation of founders.
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:41 Brad Flora They had no Silicon Valley network.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:01 Kat Mignalek Going back to Paisy, if the founders are talking to people in Silicon Valley, so investors or press, for example, uh, then it might make sense.
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:32 Dalton Caldwell So something I think about a lot is the history of technology, the history of Silicon Valley, the history of startups.
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:36 Jared Friedman And then, on the other hand, you had, like, thousands of programmers in Silicon Valley who were banging their heads against SISPs and TARPIT ideas, totally unaware that over here there was, like, a really great, genuine problem to work on.
The Truth About Y Combinator · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:07 Dalton Caldwell And I started to see a lot of parallels, um, between those industries and Silicon Valley, again, kind of depressingly, if I'm honest with you, and it's the following. 2 times in the scene
Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:46 Michael Seibel We were the classic Silicon Valley startup in search of a problem.
- ▶ 1:36 Dalton Caldwell That happens a lot with Silicon Valley, where they start with the technology I think is cool, and they try to find a market for it second.
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:53 Diego Saez-Gil And then yes, here in Silicon Valley, um, you know, employees, customers, and investors are asking companies, what are we doing about climate change?
- ▶ 36:19 Diego Saez-Gil Um, I think in that sense, YC was super useful for us on putting the Silicon Valley playbook lens
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:58 Amber Atherton No, but it's also that that is what the Valley has been conditioned to see and interact with, and I think that the style of communication that is familiar and has, you know, pervaded the space.
- ▶ 41:56 Iba Masood Um, like, like, you know, like you said, right, it's, it's the, the valley is a small place. 2 times in the scene
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:45 Cory Doctorow It's why we have Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:05 unnamed speaker I mean, that's the incredible downside of being in an ecosystem like Silicon Valley, right?
- ▶ 1:07:51 Cory Doctorow Time where it gets weird is that some of the bench are like, well, I'm here to support new entrants into the market because that's the heart and soul of what makes Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, and some of them are like, I'm here to… 3 times in the scene
Camille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:54 Camille Fournier Like all of these companies and a lot of successful companies, um, that had started in Silicon Valley that were startups, um, really had this very like negative reaction to management and hierarchy.
Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:15 Sarah Nahm Um, so I, you know, growing up, I could not have grown up further from Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:10 Sarah Nahm Three, four, five years in Silicon Valley, maybe even less.
- ▶ 46:47 Sarah Nahm Like, you know, I think Silicon Valley has actually this deeply ingrained, um, stereotyping around technical,
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:31 Jeremy Rossmann With our faculty in the room who've been engineers in, in, you know, in the Silicon Valley who are there, and it's all project-based learning, so they're not there to lecture to you.
- ▶ 27:11 Jeremy Rossmann And when you think about the fact that a hundred companies are going IPO this year in the Silicon Valley, we are having billions of dollars of wealth transferred to the founders, investors, and employees of companies who all on average…
Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:14 Tracy Young And we would go through this period of what Ryan calls the saddest story in Silicon Valley, which is we have an idea and we have no technical, um, co-founders to build it. 2 times in the scene
Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:28 Jarvis Johnson And I mean, I think that that's what things like Silicon Valley, the show, do really well.
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:04 Austen Allred We'll be announcing something in the near future, um, along those lines in concert with a few other tech leaders here in the valley.
- ▶ 28:43 Austen Allred No, it's, yeah, it's a, and that's the funny thing when you get to Silicon Valley and you see, like, there is a shh,
- ▶ 52:31 Austen Allred Don't seem to jive with each other is that I think the best high growth companies are still going to be built in Silicon Valley for right now, or at least they'll have an executive team in Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
YC's Director of Events Domonique Fines with Elpha CEO Cadran Cowansage · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:22 Domonique Fines So what's happening right now in Silicon Valley is there's all these different companies and all this different information and all these different people coming out of this space. 2 times in the scene
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:05 Dalton Caldwell So anyway, it's, it doesn't matter now, but like, I'm just like super fascinated on thinking through just what a great thing you had and all the ways, like, like I've been in Silicon Valley a long time, and it's just like these little…
- ▶ 37:55 Ryan Hoover If you're working on a project by yourself, like, and especially if you're not in Silicon Valley or like a tech hub, like where do you go?
Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:48 Sam Altman What percent of investors in Silicon Valley do you think are good, ah, long-term company builders?
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:43 Andrew Kortina You know, the Silicon Valley shtick. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:41 Andrew Kortina Whereas like the YC company, you pick one, or like any, you know, like a Silicon Valley company, you pick like one small thing, you get really good at doing that thing, you get, by doing tons and tons of reps on it, and then if you get a…
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:00 Brian Donohue Working at a large Silicon Valley company has been awesome.
Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:44 Sam Altman You also don't want to make the mistake that sort of like the stereotypical Silicon Valley, 22 year old or 21 year old college dropout says of, you know, I'm going to solve all the world's problems in three months.
- ▶ 6:12 Sam Altman It's really hard to do in Silicon Valley because like in a place where social status is determined by your job and what you're working on, like when you show up at a party and someone says, oh, what are you working on?
- ▶ 26:20 Sam Altman Um, the, like, a, a, a common criticism of people in Silicon Valley, um, who I think have great futures in their past, are people who say some version of the following sentence. 3 times in the scene
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:02 Geoff Ralston Silicon Valley was. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Paul Buchheit But if you're from someplace else, if you're not from Silicon Valley, if you're not from this environment, like it feels like you're just excluded, and I really liked the idea.
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:10 Eric Migicovsky Versus somewhere here like Silicon Valley.
Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:44 Geoff Ralston Many people track the beginning of Silicon Valley to Bill and Dave starting Hewlett Packard.
- ▶ 32:31 Geoff Ralston So if you do intend to raise in Silicon Valley or elsewhere in the States, I strongly recommend you do create a U.S. entity.
A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:54 Adora Cheung Um, as we talked about earlier, there has been this implosion of biotech startups recently, especially in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:37 Elizabeth Iorns Like, I think there is this, um, there's a lot of interest from Silicon Valley in biotech.
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:07 Patrick Collison Um, uh, and we'd never heard of him, and we hadn't heard of most people in Silicon Valley, um, but he'd Facebook messaged us, like, very early on asking to invest in Stripe, um, and I think John didn't know who's this random guy, um, and…
- ▶ 52:27 Patrick Collison Um, and that's not the, sort of, standard, obviously, uh, kind of, Silicon Valley pattern where, sort of, Apple and Amazon and Facebook and Google and all these companies, uh, tend to be, sort of, highly concentrated in these, um, uh, sort…
How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:11 Tyler Bosmeny These are terms that people in Silicon Valley throw around that I'd been hearing for years.
David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:19 David Rusenko I think, um, people are a lot more rational about pricing today than when we got started because in, um, in 2007 and 2008, the prevailing thinking in Silicon Valley was that you should actively not charge money.
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:04 Craig Cannon I mean, this is like a classic Silicon Valley story, right, where, like, people find something that's good, but not until the market is ready for it will it really take off.
- ▶ 13:07 Ryan Petersen And so I think here in Silicon Valley, we have a bias.
- ▶ 22:23 Ryan Petersen But in Silicon Valley, as part of YC, it makes sense. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:30 Ryan Petersen Um, I actually think, um, this will be controversial in some circles here in Silicon Valley, but one of my favorite business books in the last five years is, uh, Good Profit by Charles Coat.
- ▶ 41:32 Ryan Petersen I'll think a lot in Silicon Valley where we think it's just about engineering talent and who's the best engineer.
Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator
Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:22 Sam Altman In fact, I think in 2018, at least in Silicon Valley, it's easier to start a hard startup than it is to start an easy startup.
Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:52 Adora Cheung Um, and so I think that, um, what's important is to give people out there who are not in Telecon Valley access to community, access to mentorship, um, and access to really great knowledge, um, to build their startup.
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:28 Elad Gil And I think one of the big fallacies in Silicon Valley is everybody thinks that they're Amazon and they basically say every business model should be Amazon's, which is I'm going to charge as low of a price as possible 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:55 Elad Gil Um, so basically, you know, as I've been in Silicon Valley for the last decade plus, um, there have been a variety of different things that, um, seemed like great ideas at the time, and then in hindsight, maybe weren't as good. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:04 unnamed speaker Uh, Naval says, uh, Naval Ravikant, the most successful class of people in Silicon Valley on a consistent basis are either venture capitalists or people who are very good at identifying companies that have just hit product market fit.
- ▶ 25:27 Elad Gil Many companies in Silicon Valley wait way too long, so they'll, they'll sort of become huge, and then they'll realize in hindsight that they should have been thinking about it.
- ▶ 26:26 Elad Gil They said that Silicon Valley is sort of running all these, um, apologetic ad campaigns right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:52 Elad Gil And, um, I think that Silicon Valley may be in one of those cycles at a macro level where we had the
- ▶ 31:19 Elad Gil Now, the thing is that in Silicon Valley, there's different, or in general, there's different trends. 2 times in the scene
Jocko Willink and Mike Sarraille - Helping Veterans Transition into the Private Sector · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:53 Mike Sarraille First off, thanks for having, uh, having me on Y Combinator's, uh, dear to my heart because I was born and raised in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:26 Mike Sarraille And for, you know, if I took a CEO from a tech company in Silicon Valley, they would be blown away watching us go through the military decision-making process and how diligent it is.
- ▶ 1:20:55 Mike Sarraille Dude, I couldn't think of a better program for a startup team to attend, and you will see the eyes open, and they'll be like, okay, we're, we're doing, we're doing some things well.
Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:28 Jessica Livingston Um, today there are thousands all over the world, um, at least hundreds all over the world, but in 2005, what we were doing was so unusual that people in Silicon Valley just
- ▶ 12:03 Jessica Livingston So we decided to do all of our investing in batches, and we also decided that we'd fund the next batch in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:07 Jessica Livingston One of their investors tried to get them acquired by a big company in, in the valley who ultimately passed,
- ▶ 25:20 Jessica Livingston We never could have pulled off moving our operations out to Silicon Valley in a matter of months, um, if we had hired people in Cambridge, for example.
Announcing Work at a Startup · Y Combinator
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