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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 ...
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 ]
Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News. He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp, [4] ANSI Common Lisp, [5] and Hackers & Painters. [6] Technology journalist Steven Levy has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher". [7]
So says Paul Graham, a cofounder of the Y Combinator startup accelerator, who originated the terms in a recent essay. He disdains manager mode and finds founder mode far superior. He disdains ...
Ever since Garry Tan came on as Y Combinator CEO last year, there have been changes. Last March, Tan cut its late-stage investing and laid off 17 investors, and he shrank the size of YC’s ...
Graham cofounded famed startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2005, which has been an incubator for companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit. Read the original article on Business Insider Show comments
Blomfield co-founded the UK-based company GoCardless in January 2011 with Hiroki Takeuchi and Matt Robinson. [7] The company rose to prominence after receiving a £125,000 investment from Y Combinator. Blomfield stayed in Silicon Valley and during his three years at the company, it raised around £35 million of investment and hired 100 people. [6]
In 2008, Michael Seibel was a key mentor to the co-founders of Airbnb and recommended them to Y Combinator. [10] [11] In 2013 he became a part-time partner at Y Combinator and joined Y Combinator as its first African-American partner in October 2014. [12] [13] He became CEO of the Y Combinator Startup Accelerator in 2016. [14]