Investment firm · 17 mentions
YCombinator
Notable mentions
“It's similar to YCombinator that everyone knows about.”
From Jack Smith“What is the difference between the typical accelerator that people can think of like YCombinator or Techstars, and an incubator.”
From Ryan Disraeli“My co-founder, Branden, and I were very lucky to go through this startup incubator program called YCombinator, here in the Valley.”
From Jason Tan“In the process of going through the YCombinator boot camp, we had the hypothesis that machine learning was going to disrupt a lot of industries.”
From Jason Tan“What kind of an impact did YCombinator have for you guys in the before, and then also after you graduated?”
From Jason Tan“I think YCombinator is just so good at creating a culture of focus and ruthless prioritization.”
From Jason Tan“When we were going to the YCombinator boot camp, they surround all the founders with this mindset, and it becomes infectious, and we're all laser-focused on their model of being laser-focused on trying to build something that people want.”
From Jason Tan“Max Levchin, the ex-co-founder and CTO of PayPal, a very successful entrepreneur in his own right, was a guest speaker at one of the YCombinator dinners.”
From Jason Tan“We eventually applied to YCombinator, which was a seed-stage investor based at Silicon Valley.”
From Bill Clerico“Then once we joined our YCombinator batch, we just said, "You know what? S*** that."”
From Bill Clerico“So YCombinator helped us really get things off the launchpad, but I think as we were continuing to build over the course of the next two years, we realized that while group payment was a real problem that people had and needed, they were not willing to pay for solutions.”
From Bill Clerico“So two years after YCombinator we were left scratching our heads a bit trying to figure out where to take the business next, and that was when we ultimately decided to pivot the business and do something completely new.”
From Bill Clerico“One of our other early investors was David Hornik, who I'd gotten to know really well through the YCombinator experience.”
From Bill Clerico“So how helpful do you think YCombinator was to kickstart the network in this regard?”
From Bill Clerico“I think YCombinator is usually helpful.”
From Bill Clerico“Then I see that you've also been very much involved as well with YCombinator as a part-time partner.”
From Bill Clerico“So what does being a part-time partner at YCombinator – what is that?”
From Bill Clerico
