👋🏽 Welcome Diana, Dave, Edrizio, and Umur!
We’re excited to welcome Diana Hu as our newest Group Partner and Dave Lieb, Edrizio Delacruz, and Umur Cubukcu, as our newest Visiting Group Partners. These advisors (and YC alum!) bring valuable insights and recent operational experience to YC’s early-stage companies.
 

🤔 Should You Start a Startup?
For Startup School, YC Group Partner Harj Taggar share his advice on the types of people best suited to be startup founders and how to prepare to start a company in the future.
 

👩🏽‍💻 1:1 career advice from YC’s Work at a Startup — Nov. 14
Thinking about your next career move but don’t know where to start? Want a sounding board to think through your process with you? Apply to meet one-on-one with the YC team that builds workatastartup.com, YC’s jobs board and hiring platform for our portfolio companies.

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