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Jessica Livingston Livingston at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014 Born 1971 (age 52–53) Nationality American Alma mater Bucknell University (BA) Occupation(s) Businesswoman, Writer, Venture Capitalist Organization Y Combinator Known for Co-founding Y Combinator, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days Notable work Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days Spouse Paul Graham ...
Michael Seibel (born October 7, 1982) is a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv/Twitch and Socialcam. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He first joined Y Combinator in 2013, advising hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders.
Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 [1] which has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies. [2] The accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View , expanded to San Francisco in 2019, and was entirely online during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 3 ]
The following notable startups have completed the Y Combinator Accelerator program. Mike Isaac described Y Combinator as: "Y Combinator accepts batches of start-ups twice a year in a semester-like system and gives them money, advice and access to a vast network of start-up founders and technologists who can advise them." [1]
In March 2019, Altman left Y Combinator to focus full-time on OpenAI as CEO. [47] [1] ... [94] [97] He dated Loopt co-founder Nick Sivo for nine years. They broke up ...
He is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups. [1] Previously, Jared was the co-founder and CTO at Scribd , a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users.
The Muse was accepted into tech accelerator YCombinator for the Winter 2012 class. [7] Kathryn Minshew admitted she was rejected 148 times when pitching investors for seed money. [8] Minshew represented The Daily Muse in The Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year competition in Fall 2013, where she made the finals. [9]
[1] [a] He is the co-founder of live video platform Justin.tv. He was the chief executive officer of Twitch when it was spun off from Justin.tv until March 2023. In 2011, Shear was appointed as a part-time partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator. [2] In November 2023, he briefly was interim CEO of OpenAI. [3] [4]