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AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator Mar 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:03 Mukund Jha Like we use TikTok, Instagram, and part of this bunch of influencers to really, really spread the word out.

We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator Feb 6, 2026 · 1 mention

The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator Nov 28, 2025 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 16:40 Mike Mignano TikTok influencers or something.
  • ▶ 20:30 Mike Mignano And then the second phase is like the TikTok kind of, I call it recommendation media, where they figure out what you like, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:48 Garry Tan I mean, even TikTok. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:23 Mike Mignano Maybe it's TikTok influencers, you know, reels influencers, whatever kind of creators you can, you can tap into to reach some massive scale of distribution. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:02 Mike Mignano But if you're doing things like testing from an anonymous account or, you know, testing a TikTok influencer strategy, even that, like, there's always going to be more eyeballs on Twitter you can get or on TikTok you can get in front of. 2 times in the scene

Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator Jun 27, 2025 · 1 mention

Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator Nov 21, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:22 David Lieb By far the biggest change that I have seen in Twitter over the last year or so is this shift from a, you know, chronological-ish feed of topics that you have expressed that you want to follow to now kind of like more of a TikTok feed of…
  • ▶ 9:02 David Lieb And TikTok, the most recent one, um, I think just skipped straight to the end game. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:31 David Lieb Then TikTok maybe is an awesome product to solve that.

Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Reviews Startup Websites · Y Combinator Oct 1, 2024 · 1 mention

How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator Aug 13, 2024 · 1 mention

Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator Jul 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:51 Garry Tan And right here on YouTube, on Instagram, on X, on TikTok, all the different social platforms,

The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator Feb 9, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:24 Kat Mignalek Uh, and if you think back to the first time you heard about something like, say, TikTok or Slack, there's a good chance you heard about it through a friend or a coworker.
  • ▶ 17:39 Kat Mignalek So I wanted to share a thread that YC alum Catherine Cross tweeted out about building her community on TikTok. 3 times in the scene

The Two Mindsets That Can KILL Your Startup · Y Combinator Sep 9, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:41 Dalton Caldwell Facebook and TikTok, and it's with your friends and you can discover, you know, they'll just kind of like rattle all this stuff off, but they will have no code.

Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:59 Dalton Caldwell If you have a million, you know, Instagram followers or a million TikTok followers, you can make money off that and you get it.

Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator May 1, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:47 Jarvis Johnson Uh, I think, um, I think that TikTok is going to produce some people, uh, some more traditional, quote unquote traditional creators. 2 times in the scene
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