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GT: It was 2012. He does direct [investing] now, too. But he’d been trying to invest with Y Combinator for many years., The other thing that was true back then was it was commonplace for YC partners to invest in YC companies. Did Initialized end up with a bigger stake in the company than Y Combinator?
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