🧠 The cult of conformity in Silicon Valley

What happens when the unconventional becomes conventional? Michael and Dalton share stories of how the tech scene has changed since they were in school — and offer their advice on navigating a world that doesn't always reward those embarking on risky entrepreneurial journeys.

📈 Discover Black-founded companies

The YC directory dedicated to highlighting Black-founded companies now includes 175+ companies, and combined, they are valued at $11.5B and have raised $2.4B in funding — an increase of $4.8B and $1.1B respectively in the last year.

🔥 YC Fireside: Surbhi Sarna and Tracy Young

To kick off Women’s History Month, YC's Surbhi Sarna will be hosting a fireside chat with YC alumni and second-time founder Tracy Young. Tracy first went through YC in Winter 2012 with her company PlanGrid, a construction software company that was sold to Autodesk for $875M. Sign up and join us live!

🚀 The Launchpad

🌎 YC Community

🔥 Hacker News

1. Big data is dead (motherduck.com)
2. Van life in Japan (kumazen.com)
3. Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004? (jvns.ca)
4. What I think about LeBron breaking my NBA scoring record  (kareem.substack.com)
5. A GPT in 60 lines of NumPy  (jaykmody.com)
6. The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020) (airfactsjournal.com)
7. My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder (mtlynch.io)
8. QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed (chollinger.com)
9. I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation (moritz.pm)
10. A Heisenbug lurking in async Python (textualize.io)

👩🏼‍🚀 Jobs at YC startups

💸 Money Moves