Dalton Caldwell @daltonc
Group Partner & Managing Director @ycombinator dalton.substack.com SF Bay Area Joined September 2007-
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People that aren't from Texas tend to overestimate how populous Austin is relative to other metro areas in the state.
The one thing successful founders have in common according to @daltonc
Hard to think of something less helpful than teaching young ambitious people to hate technological change. It’s a setup for a life of confusion and frustration.
Too many gems in the interview but the most important one is one the importance of the basics: In the end, you want to remember to do to the basics. That's it. Don't run out of money. Talk to customers. Don't give up.
This is my post about the @ycombinator application deadline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
7 hours and 6 pages of notes later, I’m still freaking out about being in the same room as all of the @ycombinator group partners. So many takeaways and lessons learned from YC startup school Boston!! The best time to build and be in the world of startups is now.
Wow, just watched this, what a great epsiode by @daltonc and @lennysan, a must watch! I don't know anyone else who knows more about startups than Dalton. Kudos to Lenny for getting so many nuggets out of him in this episode.
We’re excited to welcome @dflieb as our newest Group Partner! David co-founded Bump, part of YC's S09 batch. In 2013 Bump was acquired by Google, where he took Google Photos from inception to over 1B users. ycombinator.com/blog/david-lie…
Dalton Caldwell (@daltonc) is Managing Director and Group Partner at @ycombinator. During his time at YC, he’s worked with over 1,000 startups, advised more than 35 YC unicorns—including @DoorDash, @Amplitude, @webflow, and @retool—across 21 different YC batches, and racked up…
When making important decisions as a founder— like what to build or how it should work— should you spend lots of time gathering input or just trust your gut? @daltonc + @mwseibel discuss when you should spend time validating, and when to just commit. ▶️ youtu.be/2ViqdR5E2wU
Today we're excited to introduce Muddy, the browser that knows you and your crew. Working with others is messy. Muddy’s AI makes it simple. We're starting the rollout today. Invite link in bio and below ⬇️ 1/6
Expanding on Dalton’s insightful and accurate tweet, I’ve repeatedly noticed that people who are adept at the art of “spin” and are not truthful, tend to have a distorted relationship with not just truth but reality. In some cases, they believe their own lies. In other cases,…
Expanding on Dalton’s insightful and accurate tweet, I’ve repeatedly noticed that people who are adept at the art of “spin” and are not truthful, tend to have a distorted relationship with not just truth but reality. In some cases, they believe their own lies. In other cases,…
This code review startup from YC W24 is getting great buzz from other founders because of how well it actually works @ellipsis_dev The video embedded on their website explains it pretty well ellipsis.dev
Turns out you could also build foundation models for biology. This is what @diffuse_bio has done to build a genAI for protein discovery. What's cool is @namrata_anand2 built this during the batch by hacking computation to need less with custom kernels
Congrats to @onbeeper from YC S21!
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People have always told me I’m incredibly optimistic. Sometimes unrealistic. I’m forever grateful that @daltonc read my YC application and funded me. YC is successful, in part, because it encourages founders to be more ambitious, not less, like so much of the world.
The one thing successful founders have in common according to @daltonc
Politicians just can’t help themselves. God forbid we just…build more housing
I have a plan that will lock home loans in at 3% interest for first-time homebuyers, lowering your mortgage payments by $1,000 a month—and it won’t cost the government a cent. Check it out. #rfkjr
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ship fast, have @ellipsis_dev catch and fix your silly mistakes
finally celebrating our brand new dilution
The subscription management platform for apps, @RevenueCat (YC S18), just raised a $12M series C to help developers make even more money. Congrats @jeiting, @elwatto, and team! techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/rev…
Me in Ithaca in 1984 or 85. (In Ithaca, snow doesn't narrow down the month as much as you might hope.) The white thing is an egg. The photo was for my housemate Nancy's class project, which must have involved photographing people with eggs.
@daltonc I talk to teens who are learning way more in school about downside of tech vs upside. Makes it much harder to get them excited about participating in solving future problems they care about, being a part of future economies. Forces me to first overcome FUD from school. So stupid.
youtu.be/m7LvNTbaqSI?si… great startup pieces of advice by @daltonc
built a fun lil app to prep for YC interviews. see if you can guess which partner is speaking.
I was reflecting again on why startups fail. On what @daltonc said on @lennysan's podcast: startups failed when founders lose hope. I realized I've heard something similar from @TonyRobbins. "The number one limiting factor of any business is the psychology of the owner." 👇
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@lennysan @daltonc @ycombinator @DoorDash @Amplitude @webflow @retool this was incredible. 12 minutes in and the seemingly most simple advice is so crystallising.
Too many gems in the interview but the most important one is one the importance of the basics: In the end, you want to remember to do to the basics. That's it. Don't run out of money. Talk to customers. Don't give up.
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