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Gustaf Alströmer

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3 years

Apple AirPods are so unreliable we don't allow them at YC demo day anymore. #1 source of audio issues.

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Pitch-deck advice: I don't think I have ever seen a fundraising deck getting better by using a designer to design it. The same goes for using fancy tools like Figma, Keynote, , or Canva. At @ycombinator we recommend people to use Google Slides and keep it

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I'm sad and frustrated to read about the temporary ban of the H1b program. I came here on an H1b and almost every immigrant friend I know did so too. We didn't steal jobs from Americans. The job market is simply not a zero sum game.

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People who haven't been founders don't know how hard it is. It's really, really hard. The pandemic made the job more lonely, more uncertain, and added another layer of stress and in many cases personal loss. Many founders have lost family members and employees over the last year

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This is Akshit Bansal and Raghav Arora, the founders of Statiq. They are the largest EV-charging network in India and did @ycombinator in S20. Their scale is astonishing. They have 7,000 chargers, most of them level 3 chargers (Tesla as comparison have 50,000 superchargers

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We often tell founders they can't outsmart investors in negotiations. Investors are pro's and founders are not. This information disadvantage also applies to Series A and is one reason why @ycombinator is launching A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet

A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet | Y Combinator

We’ve noticed a common problem: founders don’t know what “good” looks like in a term sheet. This makes sense, because it is often, literally, the first time in their careers that they’ve seen one....

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I continuously get amazed at how wrong many startups think about equity. I think it's mostly sloppiness or short-term thinking. The US ecosystem gets this, but Europe, SEA, and LATAM have some catch-up to do.

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Colorado is absolutely stunning. I honestly had no idea how beautiful it is.

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Today is the deadline to apply for Y Combinator. . 17 years ago, I was sitting with my co-founders Marie and Pelle (and later Michael) in our freezing New York apartment crafting our YC application. The first sentence of our application still makes sense

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San Francisco 7.30am

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I've noticed that significantly more people are moving back to San Francisco than leaving as of lately. 🌉 ✨

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In the last two years, @ycombinator companies have raised 190 Series A's and over $2B in capital. We collected information on every round and distilled everything we learned into a Series A Guide. Today, we're making it public:

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The new @ycombinator batch just started. YC is back in person and it feels so great. So much energy and focus.

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During this @ycombinator interview cycle it felt very apparent that the US immigration system is stacked against foreign founders. The definition of the american dream is that you can come here with nothing, start a company and create thousands of jobs.

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6 years

The number of successful people I’ve come across in the last couple of months that have decided to drop everything in order just work on solutions to climate change is inspiring.

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Amazing first dinner talk with the @Airbnb founders. The W2020 @ycombinator batch is on!

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@imrich_not @paulg They will randomly disconnect to a different device while you are presenting. Mic quality is also worse than the built-in laptop mic.

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Airbnb January 2013. ❤️ this group of people.

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2 years

Excited to publish @ycombinator ’s Request for Startups: Climate Tech. A lot of work went into this by @drusenko and myself, and we hope this will inspire any founders to work on what we think is an opportunity of a generation.

Request for Startups: Climate Tech | Y Combinator

At YC, we believe founders and startups can make a positive impact on climate change and support the transition to a sustainable future. Here are a few areas and ideas we find most interesting, and...

www.ycombinator.com

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3 years

There are over 30 climate startups in the current @ycombinator W22 batch. You can learn about some of them here:

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San Francisco is magical on days like these.

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The @ycombinator Summer 2021 batch kicked off on Monday. Let's go! 🙂

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It's exciting that perhaps the most common update from founders applying to the fall 2024 batch is: "We're moving to San Francisco!"

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4 years

Whenever anyone ask me what i miss the most about @airbnb I always, always say the people to work there. Airbnb is a special place. Working there never felt like a normal job - to me it always managed to both be a successful company and some sort of loving family.

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@sethbannon @paulg @brianklaas @amirnathoo Volvo, which is a great company from my hometown, is owned by the Chinese company Geely which is owned by a member of the Chinese Communist Party. And to be honest - without them, I don't know if Volvo would've made electric cars as fast as they did. Nuances everywhere imo.

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Y Combinator alumni reunion @ycombinator ☀️

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The team at @ycombinator have been busy. Today we're launching a new company directory with dedicated pages for Black, Latinx and women founders.

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2 years

I generally think startups should: - Give all full-time employees equity - Offer 4-year vesting or more with a 1-year cliff - Vested equity means the employee owns the equity. End of story - Same rules for every employee - Use equity & compensation benchmark tools live @PaveComp

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Spending a couple of days of quality time with my parents (aka mushroom picking and tech support). Sweden always beautiful in September.

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6 years

Climate change is the biggest challenge facing our world. At @ycombinator we're actively funding companies working on carbon removal technologies. We need a lot more startups working on these opportunities

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2 years

Applications to YC Summer 2023 are open

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I look forward to apply to become an American citizen later this year. 🇺🇸

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5 years

On a normal Saturday night before @ycombinator demo day our campus in Mountain View would be packed with founders and YC-staff preparing everyone for pitching. This year the 500+ founders having been getting ready remote and practiced pitching over video instead.

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I have still not met a single @Airbnb alumni who have found something new with the same combined momentum, team, and meaning as Airbnb had from 2012-2020. It was a magical time, and nearly everyone describes it as the highlight of their career. #airbnbalumni

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More wealthy early employees mean a great foundation for a local angel investor ecosystem. When your employees start their own startups, they will mimic your foundation, so get it right.

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5 years

The Amazon is on fire. Simply explained, the main reason Amazon is being deforested is to make room for beef production. Brazil is largest beef producer and exporter in the world. China, EU and US are the biggest importer. Do the math.

Brazil fires prompt 'prayers' for Amazon rainforest

A smoke-fuelled daytime blackout in Sao Paulo prompts calls for more action against forest fires.

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6 years

I've spent the last couple of weeks reading applications for the next batch of @ycombinator . It's extremely reqarding to be able to peek into the future and learn from all the people who are fixing the some of the societal problems of our world. I feel lucky to do what I do.

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2 years

Climate tech is now 30% of all venture capital. 🌍

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My first look-ahead of 2023: 4 themes in energy/climate 1⃣ Climate tech venture ($70B last year, and at times 30% of total VC) 2⃣ Prices ⬇️ for mission-critical materials: polysilicon☀️lithium🔋 3⃣ The Inflation Reduction Act 4⃣ The world's LNG leader 🇺🇸

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- Don’t take advantage of employees who don’t understand / value equity. This is your chance to educate them. Offer letters should communicate % of shares - not just the number of shares - If you offer early liquidity - offer it to everyone equally

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The S22 @ycombinator demo day is over. Insane what you can accomplish in 3 months if you focus. Congrats everyone!

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I’m so proud of all the startups presenting at @ycombinator S23 demo day today and tomorrow. Congrats to all of you! ✨ Here is a photo of @paulg @jesslivingston and @tlbtlbtlb , who came back and spoke to the batch last month. This is our first fully in-person batch since the

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We're announcing Startup School 2018. Learn how to start a startup and apply to receive a $10K grant from @ycombinator (no equity)

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6 years

WhatsApp intro is the new Email intro.

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2 years

Ok, San Francisco. It’s Election Day. Let’s fix this city. ⁦ @GrowSF ⁩

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I cannot describe how stressful this weekend and last week have been for hundreds of @ycombinator founders. I heard from numerous of them making layoff plans and other drastic measures only to scrap them last minute.

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6 years

Very excited to announce that @ycombinator is funding the non-profit Good Food Institute as part of Summer 2018 batch. They are doing incredible work advancing towards a world where animal meat is replaced by clean meat or plant-based meat. @GoodFoodInst

Y Combinator is funding a nonprofit that advocates for meat alternatives

The Good Food Institute will sit alongside more traditional startups, as the famous accelerator tries to find ways to reduce our animal consumption.

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Just did an office hour with an impressive @ycombinator founder who is planning on moving himself and his remote company to San Francisco this year. LLM's are having a very direct acceleration on their business in ways he hadn't imagined when he got started four years ago.

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If you live in silicon valley and you don't think the democratic candidate is exciting enough for you to engage - well, this just got personal. Your foreign friends and colleges working here are all potentially impacted. If you don't know how - ask them.

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One of the best parts of my job at @ycombinator is speaking to future founders. Today I joined @COMPFEST via Zoom and it was awesome. Thank you for hosting me!

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4 years

Today is a gloomy day so here is a funny episode from my childhood. The comic character Garfield is named "Gustaf" in swedish. Before I really knew english I thought "Garfield" must be the english translation of my name. Naturally I introduced myself as "Garfield" to foreigners.

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It’s time. @ycombinator alumni day just started in San Francisco. Demo day tomorrow and Tuesday. 175 increadible companies presenting.

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Y Combinator is visiting Mexico City. I'm being interviewed by @freddier and @PameVls tomorrow night. Still a couple spots left. @ycombinator

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@gustaf

5 years

Painted bike-lanes are not safe. Protected bike-lanes saves lives.

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A 13-year study of a dozen cities found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all users of the road. As for painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. And for sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them. Via @StreetsblogUSA

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Today and tomorrow is @ycombinator demo day for the W22 batch. I feel proud of all the founders for taking a risk on starting something of your own. And thankful to be able to work with you. Good luck today!

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Today @ycombinator is re-launching Startup School as Continuous year-around program.

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1 year

So proud of the S23 @ycombinator batch. What seemed unachievable two months ago is all coming together this and next week.

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Everyone loses when we don't offer people this chance. We're ready to fund these founders every day. I hope the incoming administration can bring the back the startup VISA again.

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Y Combinator is organizing a Climate Tech Co-founder Matching meetup on November 14th in San Francisco - join us! @ycombinator

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

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Are you passionate about using tech to address climate change and in search of a co-founder? Come join us next month in SF for a co-founder matching event designed for promising early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs in Climate Tech. 📝

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Product day by S24 @ycombinator batch. Future looks bright.

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In fact, the % of PhDs that are foreign-born are astoundingly high - especially in STEM. These kids also don't take American jobs - they create jobs. They even create industries. The CEO's of Google, Microsoft, Zoom etc are all foreign-born.

Opinion | U.S. graduate students in STEM are mostly foreign

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You might be surprised to learn that vast majority of partner <> founder communication at @ycombinator is over WhatsApp. We use it because its informal and so got damn fast.

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Last day in my life wearing glasses/contacts. LASIK here we go!

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Swedish summer ❤️

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My heart goes out to all of you. Don't keep your emotions to yourself and don't be afraid to reach out for support.

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This is great. Hoping many companies will follow their lead.

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Stripe is going to start paying for carbon sequestration:

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Thanks to the team at @startupschool for having me and thanks to everyone listening and asking questions. We will share the slides from the two talks this week! @ycombinator

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Airbnb guests booked 103.7M nights in Q2 - its largest quarter ever. Q2 saw over $14B in host revenue. @airbnb has come a long way.

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Fantastic news from @heartaerospace today. They've raised a $35M Series A from @Breakthrough @united and @MesaAirlines . United Airlines and Mesa have also agreed to order 200 of their planes.

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7 years

We're including Carbon Removal Technologies and Cellular Agriculture / Clean meat in our updated Request for Startups. These are areas we've been thinking a lot about recently. Would love to hear your feedback.

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We posted an updated Request for Startups -- 25 ideas we'd like to see founders apply with:

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I joined @lennysan 's podcast to talk about what I learned about founders and startups and what I learned from working directly with over 600 startups at @ycombinator . Also shared an update about what is happening in climate tech and founders starting climate tech startups.

Lenny Rachitsky

@lennysan

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Excited to share my conversation with @gustaf , Group Partner at YC, former Airbnb colleague, and gem of a human. Inside: ➔ Biggest lessons from working with 600+ startups ➔ Attributes of successful founders ➔ What's happening in climate tech ➔ So much more

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Everyone who wants to understand how we actually can reverse climate change and avoid catastrophic global warming should read this. It's an excellent interview by @ElizKolbert and a good summary of what we're trying to accomplish at @ycombinator

Climate Solutions: Is It Feasible to Remove Enough CO2 from the Air?

A U.S. scientific panel reports that technologies that take CO2 out of the atmosphere could be a significant part of a strategy to mitigate global warming. In an e360 interview, Stephen Pacala, the...

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All the @ycombinator Group Partners are coming to Boston to meet students from MIT, Harvard, and nearby schools who are thinking about starting a startup. Join us for Startup School East on April 20th and a day of YC interviews on April 21st.

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3 years

We have a new $500,000 standard deal.

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3 years

I'm joining a panel by the US State Dept shortly to talk about how @ycombinator is funding climatetech startups.

The U.S. Center

The U.S. Department of State organizes and hosts a U.S. Center at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties. This public diplomacy initiative, made possible by...

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Since we published Request for Startups: Climate Tech in December last year together with @drusenko , @ycombinator has now funded another 20 climate tech startups.

Request for Startups: Climate Tech | Y Combinator

At YC, we believe founders and startups can make a positive impact on climate change and support the transition to a sustainable future. Here are a few areas and ideas we find most interesting, and...

www.ycombinator.com

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Good luck to everyone presenting at @ycombinator demo day today and tomorrow. Being a founder is mostly hard work and doing things others think are crazy. So excited for what W19 batch have accomplished so far.

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It’s not uncommon that big ideas sound really small and unassuming at first impression. This is one of them.

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What a privilege to meet students and future founders at @ycombinator Startup School here in Boston. @SurbhiSarnaSF just shared her founder story.

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6 years

I did an AMA for @ycombinator Startup School earlier this summer. Here is a summary:

Growth AMA with YC Partner Gustaf Alströmer | Y Combinator

YC Partner Gustaf Alströmer [https://twitter.com/gustaf] recently did a Growth AMA with Startup School [https://www.startupschool.org/] founders. It was so good that we wanted to share it here. And...

www.ycombinator.com

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How Rippling Raised a $45M Series A — Without a Pitch Deck - Rippling

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Today is @ycombinator S22 Demo Day. 224 startups from around the world are presenting over 2 days. You can learn about most of them here

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Two incredible products I've been pitching to founders to use recently that seems to be having breakout moments: (YC W17) and (YC alums).

Linear – Plan and build products

Linear streamlines issues, projects, and roadmaps. Purpose-built for modern product development.

linear.app

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We're hiring a fulltime Product Designer to lead design at @ycombinator . If you know anyone you think would be good please have them apply here or connect them with me

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Stereotyping in Europe. http://t.co/uL1M6lv4LR

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Statiq did @ycombinator Summer 2020 and has since grown to be the largest EV-charging network in India. Today, less than 3% of cars in India are electric, but it's on track to be one of the largest EV markets in the world.

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@StatiqIndia

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Statiq Powers Ahead: April 2024 Charger Recap! Great News! We have installed 16+ EV charging stations in April across multiple cities in India, including, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Gurugram, Ramnagar, and more.🗺️ We are now live in 65+ cities with 7,000+ chargers; our goal is

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I think we may have taken the anti-AI captcha too far

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Quirk and Stoic were both in the @ycombinator summer 2019 batch. Very clear that next generation mental health / emotion tracking apps will be more than just content consumption (Calm). Feels like we are still at day 1.

YC-backed Stoic is a journaling app with a focus on understanding your feelings | TechCrunch

The process of using the Stoic journaling app is simple: You open the app in the morning and the evening, when you'll be prompted to answer a couple of

techcrunch.com

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Coinbase S2012 @ycombinator Demo Day Practice with @brian_armstrong

Coinbase YCombinator Demo Day Practice - August 2012

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I went to Startup School in 2007 and 2008 at Berkeley and Stanford. They were life-changing experiences for me and I feel so proud being in Boston today with the entire @ycombinator team for Startup School 2024

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Increadibly proud over how many founders presenting at @ycombinator demo day are making the world more sustainable.

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3 years

Desolation Wilderness

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This has been a difficult week for many, many people. Stay home. Stay safe.

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One of the most unexplainable things about Swedish culture from when I grew up is this: Whenever you're staying with a friend or just a guest at someone's house the expectation is that you bring your own bed-sheets. Sometimes people ask me if they should bring sheets to SF...

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The @SubstackInc revolution is very, very real.

Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters, their own ‘mini media empire’

As newsroom jobs grow scarcer, journalists are building their own platforms via email newsletter.

www.washingtonpost.com

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When @ycombinator companies are making live changes to their product during YC office hours is perhaps the definition of moving fast. I wish every company had these kinds of iteration cycles

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One benefit of San Francisco is that you are living in the future. @Cruise is the future of driving. It's safe, climate-friendly, frees up urban space, and doesn't require new infrastructure.

Cruise employees take their parents for driverless rides!

Parents rule. To show our gratitude for all they’ve done, we invited them to take their first driverless rides with their child. Let’s just say, you can feel...

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Good luck W2020.

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@gustaf

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I'm interviewing @dflieb on the @ycombinator podcast in a few. David is YC alum and now Product Lead for Google Photos. What questions should I ask him?

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