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Blomfield: Founders without enterprise experience drastically underprice B2B software
“Often when you haven't worked at a big company, you don't have good calibration about what kind of prices these companies tend to pay for software. And so you might think of the last time you bought software, you know, a subscription to GitHub or ChatGPT, and …”
Tom Blomfield Jul 25, 2024 ▶ 0:39 How To Price For B2B | Startup School · Y Combinator
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Alströmer: GitHub retains 80% of users after month one and 30% after five years
“So 80% retention after one month, and then 30% after 60 months. This is really good. This is a really good product. Very sticky. People like this product and they don't stop using it. It's GitHub.”
Gustaf Alströmer Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 14:24 Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
Insight
Hugging Face is the GitHub of the Software 2.0 era
“And now actually what we have is kind of like an equivalent of GitHub in the realm of software two point oh, and I think the hugging face is basically equivalent of GitHub in software two point oh, and there's also model Atlas, and you can visualize all the co…”
Andrej Karpathy Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 2:01 Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Mr. Robot's on-screen code snippets can be found in full on GitHub
“If you were to just screenshot a bit of our code or a bit of source code that's on one of the screens and research it, you'll Be able to find it on GitHub. You'll be able to find it somewhere in its entirety.”
Kor Adana Oct 11, 2017 ▶ 48:18 Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator
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McManus: GitHub account made for Silicon Valley character Winnie accidentally went viral
“I actually, I created a GitHub profile for playback purposes, right? So just, like, we wanted an authentic looking GitHub profile. The best way to do that is just to make a GitHub profile for that person. Yeah. So I made one for Winnie and we had to populate i…”
Ed McManus May 17, 2017 ▶ 22:44 The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
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