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http://ycombinator.com 10-02-2010 20:20:37
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YC Then & Now ⏳
I did Y Combinator in the summer of 08, in Boston, at Paul Graham's house.
My wife Upeka Bee is wrapping up YC this week, 16 years later, in San Francisco, led by Garry Tan 💥♻️ e/acc.
Watching her go through this, it’s been remarkable to see just how much YC has evolved!
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Here's Y Combinator 's playbook for hard tech companies based on this awesome conversation (highly recommend watching)
Here's the TL;DR:
-Start Small to Demonstrate Feasibility and Gain Traction
-Secure Early Commercial Validation
-Focus on Solving a Significant Problem
-Think…
Thanks Y Combinator for sharing our story! Really cool to make it on the pod and get a shutout from Garry Tan 💥♻️ e/acc, Harj Taggar and Jared Friedman
And thanks to the partners that supported us during the batch - Michael Seibel and Brad Flora
19:12 to hear about us!🚀🪨…
As Y Combinator stresses so much — talk to your customers! I hesitated for weeks building this when Jon OBryan suggested this feature. Just 8 hours after launching, 15% of our customers are already using it!
had a great birthday this year
spent it learning from Kevin Systrom and hanging with brilliant minds Y Combinator
thankful 💐
How do you start a startup that's building a supersonic jet?
Blake Scholl 🛫 did, and his company Boom Supersonic just did their first flight.
Here's a breakdown of 8 hard-tech companies with crazy ambitious ideas, and how they got started.
Congrats to the team PeerDB (YC S23) on the $3.6M seed!
PeerDB (YC S23) offers a fast and cost-effective way to move data from PostgreSQL to data warehouses and queues, enabling businesses to have real-time and reliable access to data. blog.peerdb.io/peerdb-raises-…