How YC Was Created With Jessica Livingston

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Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:40 - Jessica Livingston: The social radar 00:55 - The social radar 01:49 - What attracted founders to YC? 02:59 - Reason for starting YC? 05:20 - Why events are so important to YC 07:52 - Why did other VCs didn't understand this piece of investing? 09:19 - Hanging out with founders 10:34 - Excited to meet founders before they made it 13:39 - The DNA of YC 18:02 - The first batch 21:48 - Night before the 1st dinner? 23:07 - YC dinners were stressful as a founder 28:00 - Why YC alumni help new founders 28:30 - Alumni mind-blown by how big the batch was 28:57 - How has YC changed over batches? 29:57 - YC going from underdog to THE thing 32:33 - Challenges in running YC? 35:44 - Harj’s legendary meeting with Yuri Milner 39:19 - How fundraising at YC has changed? 41:33 - The first YC startup school 46:12 - Diana’s experience going through YC 48:56 - YC - Outlying founders' part of a community 50:08 - Lessons from interviewing so many founders - What changed and what stayed the same? 53:32 - What would you see in successful founders in early 20s? 57:22 - Lot of the big companies started as different ideas 58:05 - Outro

[@ThisBrock]

46:09 Was so lovely to see Harj bring Diana back into the conversation. Really subtle and sweet. You can tell these guys really enjoy spending time with one another.

[@fintech1378]

Which batch was she from

[@HaydenHelin]

Nice to hear how Jessica cares so much about the people. Seems very genuine.

[@derder-p2g]

Y Combinator is a light for startup founders

[@chinyeakaezeugwa3520]

Well said

[@_briantravis]

best lightcone so far

[@ReyReyGehani]

For real.

[@dakevs]

Good luck to all the founders that apply to the YC fall 2024 batch & beyond

[@AdvisorFinder]

Great to hear from her!

[@dakevs]

50:09 Steve Jobs was part of the original computer builders club in Silicon Valley or something like that.

[@fintech1378]

And Bill How bout Intel, Xerox, IBM

[@dakevs]

@@fintech1378 not sure what you mean?

[@MBAnoBrainer_GMATPrep]

Wow, I didn’t know Jessica from Founders At Work was the cofounder of YC! I feel like I’m surrounded by YC on all sides, lol.

[@aishaibrahimabbas5867]

Lovely Jessica, great content, so Insightful

[@Inceptionxg]

Muaadh Rilwan is 🔥

[@meetsta]

We want to join YC.

[@robertnicoletti]

the goat dream team

[@PranavKrishna-Storepecker]

Wow, watching this video would be really a very nostalgic moment for anyone and everyone who’d been a part of YC during the initial stages. Looking forward to our YC experience hopefully and working towards it. Very inspirational. Thank you for doing this! 🫶🏼

[@howme.school]

LOVED IT! 💛💛💛

[@Emily-uo6tj]

literally the GOAT

[@iamabdullah9610]

Where's Paul Graham?

[@dawidwraga]

Really great episode so far but it's a major whoopsy to not have Paul Graham here.

[@WilliamCawley-s6n]

Awesome

[@ReyReyGehani]

Legend

[@makeiteasy29]

i'm an indian i have an idea how can i launch my idea help me

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