The Untold Stories of Y Combinator with Co-Founder Jessica Livingston

Come hear the untold stories of Y Combinator with Co-Founder Jessica Livingston, and learn how she got started in her incredible career in startups.
Listen to Jessica interview billion-dollar startup founders on her podcast "The Social Radars": pod.link/1677066062
Subscribe to Jessica's podcast on KZbin: / @thesocialradars
00:00 Jessica’s origin story
10:22 Pre-Y Combinator Career
19:25 Moving home to Boston
33:35 Early Y Combinator
39:46 Meeting Paul Graham and Starting YC
50:12 YC"s early success formula
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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[@Ranjanwatson]

Wow Garry this interview is deep. Jessica is downright electrifying with her plain, simple talk, thank you Jessica. I am taking breaks to intently listen to the interview.

[@george_davituri]

the amount of startups you have been involved is enormous, wish I could hangout with such people one day and learn from them in person, meetups, events. Anyway nice hear all this stories 👍🏻☺️

[@garryrodgers2039]

Love the podcast set and look. Will dive into the episode this weekend. Well done, Garry. Keep up the great work.

[@foggycraw6758]

So refreshing! Usually stories like this encompass techies With A clear path to success.It's so nice to hear someone with an Unconventional background Discuss their Is path and impact in startup world!

[@mjmikaelson]

This was a fantastic talk Garry. Thank you for sharing! Jessica was amazing too! I appreciate both of you taking the time to do this episode.

[@DanielleNewnham]

So great to hear these origin stories! Big fan of both Garry and Jessica

[@mohammedelyas142]

Great dialogue and important information for listeners interested. thank you all ❤❤

[@jamesulan1]

Excited. Jessica, you gave my wife a scholarship to attend a coding bootcamp and it changed her life. Thank you!

[@expertociber]

"you're a nobody when you start" so true

[@AIlysAI]

Very cool, Jessica is humble and awesome!

[@MountainofInspiration]

What a poweful story!

[@waterymelon]

This was really nice! It was such an enjoyable listen.

[@yiwang2119]

Like the interview with a personal life story telling .

[@zeytelaloi]

Super interesting

[@muditjohari]

was lowkey expecting Paul to drop in and say Hi!

[@fengtality]

I think I'm a cross btw Paul and Jessica in terms of personality. I wish I were more like Jessica.

[@danielmarco7863]

Wellsley... IYKYK

[@snowcrash-]

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