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How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator Dec 3, 2025 · 1 mention

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator Jul 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:12 Garry Tan Blesses you, and suddenly, like, all these people, you know, TechCrunch says, like, the new hottest founder, and you know what, like, those are all external things that are not actually connected to real business or having an impact on…

The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup · Y Combinator Feb 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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,

How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator Jan 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:31 Parker Conrad It ended up making a really big difference because, you know, we launched a few weeks ahead of another competitor in the market that, you know, that, and the TechCrunch article about Zenefits was like,

How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator Mar 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:12 Brad Flora Well, let's take a look at yesterday's TechCrunch headlines about fundraising.

The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals · Y Combinator Jan 11, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:24 Dalton Caldwell And it's easy for you to tell reading the TechCrunch announcement why the investor made the investment.

How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 29, 2022 · 1 mention

The Truth About Y Combinator · Y Combinator Oct 28, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:57 Dalton Caldwell Like one of the classic mistakes we see from later stage YC companies is they base how easy or hard they think their fundraise will be based on TechCrunch articles they read of other people raising.

Y Combinator Is Back In Person · Y Combinator Jun 8, 2022 · 1 mention

Save Your Startup During an Economic Downturn · Y Combinator May 6, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:17 Dalton Caldwell Imagine if TechCrunch wrote an article about every failed fundraise. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:35 Dalton Caldwell So we have the data here at YC, and I will not tell you that no acquisitions ever happened, but similarly what I was saying earlier, where if you only read TechCrunch about the successful fundraisers, it gives you a warped perspective on…
  • ▶ 24:46 Dalton Caldwell Like I read in tech crunch that if the more I burn, the more I raise.

Why You Should Leave Your FAANG Job · Y Combinator Apr 20, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:35 Michael Seibel I think people will read TechCrunch and see, oh, these Google people are getting funded.

How To Compete With Amazon and Google · Y Combinator Apr 8, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:38 Brad Flora They, uh, you, you read the, uh, the, you read about the fundraising and tech crunch or whatever.

How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done · Y Combinator Mar 31, 2022 · 1 mention

Elon Musk & The Midwit Meme – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Mar 2, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:54 Michael Seibel And then do we do, do we do like a TechCrunch post, or is it better to try to get the New York Times, or like what about Hacker News?

YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator Jan 24, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:30 Michael Seibel Um, before people cared about their Crunchbase profile, TechCrunch just built the profiles on Crunchbase.

Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator Jul 3, 2019 · 1 mention

Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:16 Mike Knoop Alark on the site at the time, and we, you know, we got, literally we launched in TechCrunch and had three days straight where all the chat messages were answering was just people asking for apps that we didn't support, and I had never… 2 times in the scene

Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Jan 9, 2019 · 1 mention

The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:17 Paul Buchheit I mean, I, I think that there has to be a founder conviction, like they have to believe in what they're doing and not that they're just chasing after, you know, some trend like, oh, I read an article in TechCrunch, I'm going to go off in a…

A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator Oct 12, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:44 Eric Migicovsky Uh, I wrote, um, I wrote a blog post, uh, that was on TechCrunch a couple months ago about how software engineers can kind of get started on this, and the recipe is pretty simple.

PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator Sep 19, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 30:28 Kat Manalac Um, you know, TechCrunch, back when they first started, covered pretty much every single company that launched, because they were like, you know, one startup every two weeks would launch in the early 2000, but now, um, they get tens, if… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:27 Kat Manalac So if you're, you know, reaching out to TechCrunch during TechCrunch Disrupt, you'd be crazy lucky to get a response from them.
  • ▶ 37:44 Kat Manalac You have, you know, social media channels, promote it on all your own channels, um, and if you have, ah, an email list of investors, um, or friends, you know, shoot them a note saying, hey, good news, we were in TechCrunch, um, and you,… 2 times in the scene

A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2018 · 1 mention

David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:10 David Rusenko We, um, got finally were able to get on tech crunch the day of our YC interview. 4 times in the scene

Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator Mar 8, 2018 · 1 mention

Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:07 Michael Seibel You can read about them on the blog, you can read about them on Product Hunt, on TechCrunch, on Hacker News.

Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator Feb 15, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 23:15 Kat Manalac So if you're building a drone company, um, and you want to pitch TechCrunch, you'll want to reach out to Laura Kolodny, for example. 3 times in the scene
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