This Week at YC

November 21, 2022
 

🤔 How do you find and evaluate startup ideas?
YC Group Partner Jared Friedman shares a framework to help you do just that, with examples from YC founders and the inside stories of how they came up with the ideas that turned into billion dollar companies.
 

👩🏻‍⚖️ Carolynn Levy, inventor of the SAFE
Carolynn Levy, who invented the SAFE, may be the most influential person in Silicon Valley you've never heard of. She rarely talks to reporters. But no one in the world understands startup law better.
 

🔎 Finding your next role: AMA with YC Recruiters — Dec 2
Exploring your next career move? Come chat with YC Continuity's Talent team: the recruiters who help our later stage portfolio companies grow their teams. We'll share what we're seeing the tech job market, talk through why it might be interesting to work at a startup, and answer any questions you have about your own career.  

• Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
• Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU  (trevorklee.substack.com)
• My ADHD founder toolbox  (hypatia.ca)
• Apple Rankings  (applerankings.com)
• The Seven Levels of Busy  (randsinrepose.com)
• Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer  (danfitdegree.hashnode.dev)
• Robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals [video]  (youtube.com)
• Laying myself off from Amazon  (daniel.do)
• I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information  (roberdam.com)
• The positive effect of walking on creative thinking (2014) [pdf]  (apa.org)
• Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station  (floor796.com)