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Y Combinator
DECEMBER 9, 2020
By the time a company is successful enough to IPO, the many doubts and uncertainties of the early stage startup are largely forgotten, replaced with a hindsight that makes their path to success seem so much more obvious and predictable. Once the applications are all reviewed, we invite the top startups in for a ten minute interview.
Jason Malki
JANUARY 15, 2024
Takeshi “TK” Mori and Clancey Stahr met in 2013 at a cafe on Stanford’s campus and worked together on various investment projects before deciding to launch GoAhead Ventures I in Q4 2014. Generally speaking, startup founders are some of the most passionate people in the world, and they’re often tackling humanity’s biggest problems.
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Andreessen Horowitz
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So I had this idea for Mercury in 2013, but it didn’t start until 2017. Immad Akhund: Sure.
Y Combinator
MARCH 30, 2021
We’ve been talking about the unique challenges facing women founders for years, but the pandemic was particularly hard for women looking to start their own companies. Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Welcome to the future.
Y Combinator
APRIL 24, 2024
While there I worked in what would become Sebastian Thrun’s AI research lab — he was one of the co-founders of Google X, and their self-driving car project that became Waymo. In 2013, Bump was acquired by Google. Has YC changed much since you went through as a founder? We’re consuming our own advice.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2012
In driving down the costs of building businesses it’s driving down the age of startup founders and thus they’re starting companies where young people want to live – in urban environments. And with startups so go VCs. Our lease runs out in 2013. GRP’s offices are near Beverly Hills.
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