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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. [3] [4]
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 ]
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]
Paul Graham (/ ɡ r æ m /; born November 13, 1964) [3] is an English-American computer scientist, writer and essayist, entrepreneur and investor.His work includes the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo!
In 2012, he entered the Y Combinator startup accelerator and received a $150,000 investment, which he used to fund Coinbase. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] His post on Hacker News [ 8 ] looking for a co-founder to get into the Y Combinator program later became a viral post in Hacker News.
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.
Altman was born on April 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois, [7] [8] into a Jewish family, [9] and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri.His mother is a dermatologist, while his father was a real estate broker.