From the Archives: Y Combinator Founders Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston on Studio 1.0 (2014)

From Oct. 9, 2014: Silicon Valley legends Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, the co-founders of startup incubator Y Combinator, sat down with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on Studio 1.0. Compare their vision from a decade ago to where YC and Silicon Valley are today. (Source: Bloomberg)
Watch Emily's 2023 interview with Y Combinator's current President/CEO Gary Tan on her new series The Circuit on Bloomberg Originals:
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[@mahawane]

My dad was diagnosed with 3rd stage colon cancer. The day I heard this news, I went into a depression. His treatment went on for 2 years, and now he has recovered. I totally agree with Paul, there should be a colon screening for everyone.

[@Andre-mi6fk]

The problem is insurance companies tell medical industry that colon screening only at 45 years old. I think everyone should do screening even before that. Also, important to adjust diet habits and decrease putting things in your body that contribute to those things.

[@Neonb88]

Any of the early preventable ones. We've lost so many, Steve Jobs being a famous one, but my heart goes out to everyone reading who has lost a loved one in a similar way

[@gbengaogun]

2 living legends! What a gem of an interview! Wow!

[@nbme-answers]

Please release original unedited interview

[@Ranjanwatson]

That interview drove into the depths of YC. Excellent interivew, slick production and and insightful content. Thank you Bloomberg.

[@kelvinedionwe]

Amazing interview, thank you Jessica and Paul for creating such an amazing institution that has protected and helped a lot of startups.

[@andrewashmore8000]

Amazing people , really amazing people. Just made me very happy to witness decency.

[@musicmavericks3790]

Thank you very much, Bloomberg!!! If there are any more of their interviews please do post them!!!

[@Calm_passion]

love PG and Jessica!!!! Learning so much ! how clear and transparent they are ! They are such a great fit👍

[@RukshanJ]

One hears about YC in investor talks and forums, first time hearing from the heros that founded YC. Thanks @Emily for hosting such an authentic duo.

[@jackgibson5783]

Amazing, insightful and touching! Thanks Paul & Jessica!

[@larryabecid2819]

Wow thank you so much for this! Such a treat!

[@webmaster1461]

Thank you so much to everyone who make this interview happened.

[@emileeid6347]

Very exciting interview and conversation fron Emily Chang for the most two prominent ledgendery Y Combinator Foundrts Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston on startups as well and there insprring story behind it, VC have changed dramatically when its founded it growed and inspired teenage founders appy to Y combinator and I like one day to let the world be a free world with no Cancer and diseases .

[@GauravSharma1]

Paul and Jessica are rockstars!!

[@Neonb88]

A timestamp (when this conversation was had) on this would be awesome Paul Graham's stories about getting in trouble every year as a kid is awesome, have never read that in his essays or any of the other suggested talks

[@Neonb88]

And of course the colon cancer bit is so sad. Just so so sad. Sorry for your loss, Paul Emily was pretty nice to them overall, but she definitely interrupted and poked around a lot, when we're mostly here because of Paul's originality and years of effort

[@juanjosegouvea]

great interview.

[@ambition112]

0:11: 📚 Y Combinator, the prestigious startup incubator, was built by founders Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston. 5:09: 📚 Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston discuss their backgrounds, how they met, and the founding of Y Combinator. 7:23: 💰 The founders of Y Combinator initially had no interest in making money and viewed it as an experiment, but eventually had to take money from investors when they ran out of funds. 11:16: 👥 Y Combinator looks for authentic founders who are not just in it for the money and has a 3% stake in its portfolio companies. 15:11: 👩‍💼 Y Combinator is making efforts to increase the number of women founders in their program and has seen progress with 12% of founders now being female. 18:44: 💔 The guests reflect on their biggest regrets, the future of Y Combinator, and their hopes for its legacy. Recap by Tammy AI

[@george_davituri]

Interesting to hear all this story around YC, hoping to be get accepted one day and being a part of YC backed startup journey. Also one interesting fact i can share, my grandfather worked in a nuclear business too, but it was less attached to business as it was during soviet union.

[@kwasibruce]

Sam Altman did amazing work at YC that it made Jessica's work easy. I was not surprised he went on to start Open AI.

[@Neonb88]

He didn't start it. Musk probably deserves more credit for than any other one person, but many conflicting ideas and philosophies are involved, Hasibis and Sustkever included Radford is also there, last I heard

[@IrfanAhmedirafhan]

What a great couple

[@Mossad84]

I will apply to Ycombinator this week!

[@danielwchen0]

Good luck!

[@aanchaallllllll]

0:11: 📚 Y Combinator, the prestigious startup incubator, was built by founders Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston. 5:09: 📚 Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston discuss their backgrounds, how they met, and the founding of Y Combinator. 7:23: 💰 The founders of Y Combinator initially had no interest in making money and viewed it as an experiment, but eventually had to take money from investors when they ran out of funds. 11:16: 👥 Y Combinator looks for authentic founders who are not just in it for the money and has a 3% stake in its portfolio companies. 15:11: 👩‍💼 Y Combinator is making efforts to increase the number of women founders in their program and has seen progress with 12% of founders now being female. 18:44: 💔 The guests reflect on their biggest regrets, the future of Y Combinator, and their hopes for its legacy. Recap by Tammy AI

[@Calm_passion]

thank you!

[@domore1287]

Great fan of paul❤

[@momfits]

When paul cried, I cried. Get screened for colon cancer!

[@simplyInvent]

beautiful

[@AanandAman]

I LOVE PG THE MOST

[@hiranga]

So good!

[@galleon8129]

The Mount Olympus of modern Silicon Valley

[@Hasbara-je3en]

This dude is fkn awesome

[@leonelvega7239]

13:52 the voice of Paul hahaha 🤣

[@TheBlackClockOfTime]

15:02 finally someone says the truth out loud. I guess it took a woman to say that. Thank you. Women simply don't care about tech the way guys do. Why is that so hard to accept? Why does that need to somehow change? Why do we need to force tech down women's throats? Let them do what they enjoy. Jesus.

[@Alice8000]

13:27 what the heeeeeeeeeeel

[@Necromancer-kz4rx]

❤❤

[@patrickgeider]

Two great people to talk to, but this was poorly cut together and Emily shouldn't keep answering the first part of questions for them

[@sikhswim]

When was this interview? PG and Jessica are amazing

[@ubermensch6676]

Read the description, From Oct. 9, 2014

[@honey.badger]

@@ubermensch6676 i think the date info was added later. he prob watched before that.

[@ubermensch6676]

@@honey.badger in that case apologies

[@lukejeong899]

​@@ubermensch6676wished it was recent

[@antikras666]

Yc great rehab

[@Yotrek]

3:15 In 1980 he was coding on a machine from 1959.

[@Neonb88]

Worth fact-checking, interesting story

[@arifulislamleeton]

hi I'm Ariful Islam leeton im software developer and founder open A. I and members of the international organization who and investors public and private sector

[@amochswohntet99]

All of the weird affectations indicate that yes to be successful you have to create your own persona a little bit, but sometimes if it goes to far off into the deep end I think it could even indicate potential delusional thinking.

[@powerbull5109]

All dirty blood money

[@mohan1519]

world domination, threw a bone to the dog ask it to look up in space... maybe world domination f-k in joke... lmfao...

[@As1fAhmad]

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[@BloombergTechnology]

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[@honey.badger]

I’m a female founder excited to apply but not this year bc i’m learning to code to build the product.

[@NilsWestgardh]

You should still apply, if only for the thought excersise and claritfy of thought.

[@minc33]

hey good luck!

[@honey.badger]

@@NilsWestgardh it's ok. i watched the whole startup school + lots of other YC vids and it's clear the odds aren't in my favor unless i'm technical or have a technical co-founder. i'm a solo founder and learning to build myself seems more likely then finding a compatible co-founder for the long run. they prefer a founding team although they do say the number 1 cause of startup failure is co-founder conflict. i wanna be good enough to stand on my own. thank you for your support tho 🙏🏼

[@honey.badger]

@@minc33 thank you! 🙏🏼

[@tyrellcobb4665]

Didn't expect him to have an american accent lol

[@powerbull5109]

Gay conman

[@Alberto_Cavalcante]

Thanks for sharing this interview.

[@rileyandersen7346]

My dad has colon cancer and let it get to stage 4 before he ever got checked. He lived through but it definitly took its toll on him. It his own fault for not taking care of it early enough, but still, sucked to see him go through it.

[@BizLytInteractive]