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2021 — YC Year in Review

Y Combinator

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. When a founder is accepted into YC, we modify the startup’s DNA, edit it, to include key alleles that make success more likely. In 2021, many YC founders led their companies to achieve outstanding results, and we are honored to be part of these companies’ history.

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2021 — YC Year in Review

Y Combinator

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. When a founder is accepted into YC, we modify the startup’s DNA, edit it, to include key alleles that make success more likely. Of course, YC itself remained remote during 2021, as did all of our programs. In 2021 an extraordinary ten YC companies went public.

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Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing

TechCrunch

Marketing teams will go to developers and say: “Hey, could you guys write a blog post?” ” And they’ll usually get a few blog posts here and there, but it’s really hard to build consistent content when these engineers are building the product and have production deadlines to hit. That is super rare.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog. Nguyen and Ryan Victory in a blog post. The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT.” We plan to make ChatGPT Business available in the coming months.”

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HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale

Y Combinator

Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC and cofounder of Wufoo. Kevin’s a partner at YC and co-founder of Wufoo. And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article. ” That was the early days of HubSpot, not only helping people set their blog up, but actually posting it and editing it.

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

We build organizing software for unions and labor orgs — a customizable and private platform for Organizers to support workers all the way from interest / onboarding through to submitting union authorization cards. Most were in SF, mostly early stage, some generating buzz out of YC or 500 Startups, almost entirely ‘check-in’ type apps.