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Jessica Livingston Livingston at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014 Born 1971 (age 53–54) 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 ...
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]
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 ]
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.
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!
Morris was born in 1965 to parents Robert Morris and Anne Farlow Morris. The senior Robert Morris was a computer scientist at Bell Labs, who helped design Multics and Unix; and later became the chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center, a division of the National Security Agency (NSA).
Caldwell was born in El Paso, Texas, and graduated from Stanford University in 2003 with a B.S. in symbolic systems and a B.A. in psychology. [1]After graduation, Caldwell worked briefly for VA Linux (where he had previously worked as a summer intern) before founding Imeem in late 2003 with Stanford classmate (and ex-Napster engineer) Jan Jannink. [2]
When Infogami failed to find further funding, Y-Combinator organizers suggested Infogami merge with Reddit, [39] [40] which it did in November 2005, creating a new firm, Not a Bug, devoted to promoting both products. [39] [4] As a result, Swartz was given the title of co-founder of Reddit. Although both projects initially struggled, Reddit made ...