Jared Friedman @snowmaker
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6 months ago I decided to apply to @ycombinator on the morning of the application deadline. Today, I'd call it one of the top 3 decisions of my life. Guess what? Today is the last day to apply for the next YC batch. Carpe diem. Apply! You never know where you might be in 6…
YC today, with folks like @dflieb and @garrytan, is a no-brainer. I don't know a single founder who regretted applying to YC. I do know several who regretted NOT applying.
I have no skin in the game on if you apply to @ycombinator but here is why you should I also realized the other day 100% of my true billion+ investments went through an accelerator YC is the best, so ... youtu.be/1k7rZDe8Db8?si…
2 years ago, only 10% of the YC batch was college students or new grads. The last batch was 30%. Because of AI, it's the best time in a decade for college students to start startups. That's why all 14 YC partners came to Boston today to talk to undergrads.
We've noticed an uptick in great applications from Princeton recently. Something is going on.
We've noticed an uptick in great applications from Princeton recently. Something is going on.
All 14 YC group partners onstage together for the first time in … (checks notes) Boston!
I went to @ycombinator Startup School in 2013 and the shot of adrenaline I got from meeting hundreds of other founders and soaking in startup stories was unmatched. I’m excited to help give the same experience to founders in 2024! Let’s go.
I went to @ycombinator Startup School in 2013 and the shot of adrenaline I got from meeting hundreds of other founders and soaking in startup stories was unmatched. I’m excited to help give the same experience to founders in 2024! Let’s go.
Hosting Startup School for the first time since 2016. YC is back.
41% of recent YC founders worked at a YC company as employees before starting their own company. We only learned this stat recently and even we were surprised it was so high.
Dropping out of Harvard and joining @ycombinator to build @BrainbaseHQ (W24) has been one of the best decisions I've made in life so far, up there with moving to US. If you're still on the fence, do it, apply to S24.
If you’re not building in SF, what are you doing?
Paul Graham @paulg
1.9M Followers 772 Following
Garry Tan @garrytan
432K Followers 4K Following President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @Initialized—PM/designer/engineer who helps founders—YouTuber—San Francisco Democrat accelerating the boom loop—e/acc
Austen Allred @Austen
331K Followers 766 Following Co-founder & CEO @bloomtech: the school that invests in you. Will tweet as I wish and suffer the consequences.
Y Combinator @ycombinator
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Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang
142K Followers 695 Following ceo at @scale_ai. rational in the fullness of time
delian @zebulgar
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Ryan Petersen @typesfast
185K Followers 1K Following Founder and CEO of Flexport, Venture Partner at Founders Fund
Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak
167K Followers 3K Following investing in Pre-Seed + Seed rounds at @BananaCap_ podcasting @ThePeelPod writing @TheSplit_ (sign up below)
Jack Altman @jaltma
76K Followers 414 Following Investing at Alt Capital. Founder and chairman of Lattice.
immad @immad
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Yuri Sagalov @yuris
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Chris Frantz @frantzfries
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John Coogan @johncoogan
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Justin Kan @justinkan
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Seth Bannon 🌻 @sethbannon
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Dan Fritchman @dan_fritchman
239 Followers 2K Following Making the chips and the code that makes the chips @Berkeley_EECS, formerly @Apple, @Theteamatx
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Kerry Jones @kerryjj
708 Followers 3K Following CTO, Startup Advisor, Coach and Mentor. 0 to 1 & Early Stage. Led engineering @ Depop in some of early days. Also ex-Beamly, BBC. Follow for startup tips.
Kelson 🚀 @_K_E_L_S_O_N_
296 Followers 3K Following Hi there. I talk about rockets. And Arduino/ESP32. And Star Trek. Neurospicy. I speak in gifs. 🦈
MadeOfParticles @MadeOfParticles
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Easy2 @KhwaishMeh20779
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Rob Portwood @rportwood
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Cristi Movila @CristiMovila
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217 Followers 529 Following Wisdom on personal growth & self-improvement. Join & expand your unique potential. Let's journey towards your best self! #personalgrowth #mindfulness #selfhelp
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Subham De @SubhamDe2021
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Anjney Midha @AnjneyMidha
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Biodun Oni @abiodunooni
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James Gator @JamesG16637
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Justin Bianchini @Jbianchini_1
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anish jindal @anishjindal20
302 Followers 4K Following
The Voice of San Fran.. @TheVOSF
580 Followers 496 Following Nonprofit online newspaper from @SusanDReynolds and the team behind @TheMarinaTimes. San Francisco needs a new Voice. https://t.co/rfhvhRIAqH
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Srirag Vuppala @srirag_vuppala
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Tom Shapland @tom_shapland
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Paul @ PlugDev AI @plugdev_ai
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Speedy @Speedy14626095
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Clay @cjgaliardo
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Rodney Kuhn @rodneykuhn
383 Followers 723 Following Co-founder of Sortd, high tech entrepreneur, engineer & passionate product guy. Board member of the Entrepreneurs Org & mentor for Branson Institute.
Paul Graham @paulg
1.9M Followers 772 Following
Garry Tan @garrytan
432K Followers 4K Following President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @Initialized—PM/designer/engineer who helps founders—YouTuber—San Francisco Democrat accelerating the boom loop—e/acc
Suhail @Suhail
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Michael Seibel @mwseibel
215K Followers 0 Following Partner at YC and Managing Director of YC Early Stage @ycombinator [email protected]
Aaron Levie @levie
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Austen Allred @Austen
331K Followers 766 Following Co-founder & CEO @bloomtech: the school that invests in you. Will tweet as I wish and suffer the consequences.
Nikita Bier @nikitabier
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Y Combinator @ycombinator
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Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang
142K Followers 695 Following ceo at @scale_ai. rational in the fullness of time
Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings
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delian @zebulgar
165K Followers 787 Following space drugs and arms @vardaspace | village idiot/partner @foundersfund
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Jason ✨Be Kind✨ L.. @jasonlk
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Melia Russell @meliarobin
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Tomer London @tomerlondon
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dharmesh @dharmesh
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thisisnotFranck @thisisnotfranck
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Jon Xu @Xuster
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parul 🧘🏽♀�.. @parulia
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Dilan Dane — e/acc @dilan
2K Followers 420 Following CEO @GetSystem2 On a mission to help people become healthier, happier, & hotter 💪 MIT Physics & CS / YC S08 / Google / 3x founder / Khosla backed
Stephanie Zhan @stephzhan
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Kathryn Wu @Kathrynwu088
1K Followers 553 Following Founder @Openmartai (Backed by @ycombinator) | Women in fintech powerlist 2022 | Previously @cal
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127K Followers 870 Following Founder - Altimeter Capital. Luck befalls the curious mind. Counting life in days and acts of kindness. Views here personal.
Michael Dubrovsky @MikeDubrovsky
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Our World in Data @OurWorldInData
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AJ Asver 🤖👨🏾.. @_aj
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219K Followers 2K Following I am a technology enthusiast, writer, and modder. Founder of ModRetro, @Oculus VR, and @Anduriltech. Keeping American superheroes safe with autonomous systems.
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Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle
20K Followers 1K Following VP @Astranis, building internet satellites ◦ host of @1stPrinciplesFM ◦ investor and believer in deep tech startups
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Tim Suzman @TimSuzman
1K Followers 266 Following General Partner at Pioneer Fund. We are 400+ Y Combinator alumni investing in the top YC startups.
Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale
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Sarah Cone @sarah_cone
14K Followers 4K Following VC @ Social Impact Capital. Seed only, investing for VC returns + social impact. Technology sister, deeptech industrialist, and a one-woman party round. e/acc
Nate Matherson @NateMatherson
2K Followers 658 Following Co-founder @GoPositional (tools for content marketing & SEO) | 2-time YC founder, investor in 80+ startups
Anna Wang @AnnaXWang
262 Followers 129 Following Head of AI @JoinMultiverse | fmr. co-founder & CTO @searchlight_ai (acquired) backed by @Accel, @FoundersFund, & @ycombinator
Oliver Cameron @olivercameron
41K Followers 498 Following Building something new! Built self-driving cars at @cruise and @voyage. Board member at @skyways. @ycombinator alum. Angel investor in 60+ DeepTech startups.
Chrys Bader @chrysb
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Dave Messina @DaveMessina
1K Followers 2K Following GP Bio+Health Fund and SVP @Pioneer_Fund, Founder/COO @CofactorGenomic, alum @YCombinator. Worked on the Human Genome Project
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666 Followers 1 Following Daily wisdom from PG’s essays to think clearer, build better, and make smarter decisions.
Andrew Côté @Andercot
64K Followers 1K Following engineering physicist, founder @hyperstition_x, scout @a16z, runs @TheAISalonSF, deep-tech, physics, energy and sci-fi 🇨🇦
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marissamayer @marissamayer
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Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel
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Kulveer ⚡️ @kul
10K Followers 4K Following Making it easy to live wherever, whenever as the CEO of @zeusliving 🏡. 💰by @airbnb @initialized @ycombinator 🎓 PPE @stjohnsox Former 🎭 ❤⚽️ @manutd ✈️🇬🇧
Arnav Sahu @arnavsahu341
2K Followers 817 Following Work at @ycombinator. Previously, @sparkcapital, @Cisco and @AppDynamics, @blackstone. Live in SF, grew up in India. https://t.co/Q2bcuv0uyx
Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray
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Liz Wessel @lizwessel
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Figure @Figure_robot
71K Followers 1 Following Figure is an AI Robotics company building the world's first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot.
James Cham @jamescham
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Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil
88K Followers 901 Following I write about genetics, 'metrics, and demographics. Read my long-form writing at https://t.co/8hgA4nNS2A.
If you teach that “weak makes right”, then the perceived stronger party – in this case, Israel – is wrong. Morals should be taught in the absolute, meaning that it is possible for either the strong or weak to be morally good, depending on their actions.
The one thing successful founders have in common according to @daltonc
In large organizations compliance is often rewarded more than success. Founders should avoid the challenges of large organizations for as long as possible.
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
Leadership needs to be where the core of the work happens. Moving Boeing back to Seattle is a good idea.
Boeing's "board now leans towards moving headquarters away from its current location in Arlington, Va., and back to the Seattle area" | Fortune fortune.com/2024/04/27/boe…
2016 was the year WMV went mainstream; they’re still more religious, their new religion just doesn’t identify as a religion.
For decades, social science has 'known' that women are more religious than men. However, if you track the religiosity of young adults - something really interesting happened. Women are more likely to claim no religious affiliation than men. It started around 2016.
The H1B visa is the lifeblood of this great country. You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
it’s wild that coastal cities have spent years debating if YIMBY policies will lower rents, and Austin just… did it they streamlined permitting, upzoned most of the city, and eliminated parking mandates. Tons of housing is going up and rents are plummeting. YIMBY policies work
The more inflated the language in your startup's pitch, the less convincing it seems. If you're a seed stage company, don't tell me you're transforming global this or poised to dominate that. Tell me you noticed something that might turn out to be an overlooked opportunity.
Liziba Station in southwest China's Chongqing, is famous and unique for enabling light railway trains to run through a residential building. [📹 mustvisitguide]
Wanna see what economic self-sabotage looks like?
One thing we've learned from the past decade is that there's a reason western legal traditions have safeguards like penalties for perjury, making the jury be separate from the accusers, and so on, and without them you're going to get miscarriages of justice.
A Statement I am a Scala developer and speaker who was cancelled three years ago. Yesterday I attended the High Court in London to hear an apology from several prominent members of the Scala community for making untrue claims about me on 27 April 2021. I sued them for libel, and…
@Noahpinion I was about to write "Does the New York Times really want Trump as president?" and then it occurred to me that they might. It made them a lot of money last time. x.com/paulg/status/1…
A striking graph of the percentage of New York Times headlines containing each president's name, by @brgrbrglr. Trump and the Times had a symbiotic relationship: he used them to get attention, and they used him to get subscribers.
@garrytan Knowing how to build feels like a superpower. Anything you can dream you can make a reality.
Technology is the core of the opportunity today so it is no surprise: we are far and away funding teams with strong tech cofounders
Alaska's glacial ponds can be so small, and at the same time so deep and clear that really look like a portal to another dimension. [📹 John Derting]
Introverts ❤️ Waymo
All in on driverless cars ily @Waymo
"How to Start Google" (paulgraham.com/google.html) was a talk at my older son's school. It was one of a series of talks about careers. I just heard the students voted it the best one, and I'm happier than if I'd won some prestigious award.
we almost gave up on building fume. we were looking to pivot, convinced that we were not cut out for the job. hearing our name mentioned in the lightcone podcast put the biggest of smiles on my face and i wanted to write about why i think YC is truly special for every founder.
Did you know the speed limit on Upper Market St in San Francisco is 20mph? I’ve never been in a car that drove so slowly until tonight. Not a single human driver obeys the speed limit. But my robot car does! 🤖 🚘 This computer is THE SAFEST driver on our roads. Recently…
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