In the latest episode of The Social Radars, we chat with Kyle Vogt, co-founder of Cruise and Twitch. If you like complicated technical problems, this is the interview for you, because that's what he works on.

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Startups get compared by how much they raise and at what valuation, because that's public information. But this has the unfortunate side effect of making fundraising read as success. So I'm glad YC publishes a list of the top companies by revenue.

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The startup visa works. The US should create one.

We hit 99.99988% availability for Stripe's payments APIs in April (and at record scale). Just a hair more than one error for every million payments.

Step into your imagination. Introducing Icons

Thanks Garry! It was a lot of fun being interviewed by you. Many of the questions you asked me were ones no one had ever asked before.

The first rule of activism: It's not enough that your actions are intended to help fix some problem. They must actually help fix it. And you can't take this for granted, because the easiest forms of activism mostly don't.

Managing Brian Armstrong's 'Mission First' announcement as head of comms at Coinbase 🛡️ was one of the biggest challenges I've had in my career. It was the right thing to do, but very painful to execute internally and externally b/c it was so controversial at the time.

It came…

Season 3 of The Social Radars podcast launches today! Our first guest is Yuri Sagalov, who is the insider's insider. He was funded by YC, then worked for YC, and now runs his own fund, Wayfinder Ventures, which invests in a lot of YC companies.

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I never saw this - thanks PB!!

My dad and I at my college graduation party. He's 82 today and still cuts a fine figure! HBD, Dad!

About to go on stage at YC Startup School East

A lot of very talented people in this audience. By the numbers almost guaranteed to have even a dozen billion dollar startup founders in this photo

The future is not yet written so we don’t know which ones

There's 3 days left to apply for the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.

YC changed my life, and it could change yours:

Stopping to smell the tulips!

Congrats to David Lieb on becoming a group partner at YC. If anyone wants to know how his great he is, listen to his interview on the Social Radars!

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Apologies in advance but...are you shitting me?!

The Free Press NPR Uri Berliner It's time to go for NPR's funding.

I am LOVING this photo. Too bad PG never had a YC apron.

I get emails like this every other day. If that many are asking, can you imagine how many quietly stop pursuing software as a career because of the silly hype around programming being automated away?

'Which is not to say it's impossible. But before you try it, you have to be able to say why everyone else has failed.' Yes.