📙 Advice for technical founders at the earliest stages

YC Group Partner Diana Hu was the co-founder and CTO of Escher Reality (YC S17), which was acquired by Niantic (makers of Pokemon Go). She shares her insights on how to ship an MVP fast, how to deal with technology choices and technical debt, and how and when to hire an engineering team.

☀️ The YC Summer Conference for students

If you're a student (undergraduate or graduate) in the Bay Area this summer, join us for our YC Summer Conference at the YC office in Mountain View, CA. You'll meet YC founders, partners, and fellow students working across big tech and startups.

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1. Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study (northeastern.edu)
2. CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg (thedriven.io)
3. Four-Byte Burger (youtube.com)
4. Space Elevator (neal.fun)
5. User: Junnn11 (wikipedia.org)
6. Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years (legittorrents.info)
7. Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks (economist.com)
8. Load Balancing (samwho.dev)
9. Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?” (oceanservice.noaa.gov)
10. Making friends as an adult is hard (2021) (wbur.org)

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