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This Week at YC

May 15, 2023

📢 Welcome back to YC, Emmett Shear and Wayne Crosby

We’re excited to welcome Emmett Shear and Wayne Crosby as our newest Visiting Group Partners.

📙 How to Know if It’s a Good Co-Founder Match

Whalesync co-founders Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to help co-founders find each other. We talked with Curtis and Matthew about how each determined the other was the right person to start a company with.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

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Sequin

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🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
Stripe tackles ‘cold start problem’ with the launch of fiat-to-crypto on-ramp
Cointelegraph
Airthium's Breakthrough Engine Aims to Replace Fossil Fuels 
Yahoo! Finance
Y Combinator's Garry Tan on Zoom fundraising and not having a boss
Axios
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is taking it back to basics
The Verge
Nigeria’s Dojah launches new anti-fraud product for digital businesses
Disrupt Africa
BetterPlace acquires fintech lending startup Bueno Finance
Live Mint

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news | (boringreport.org)
  2. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think | (twitter.com/paulg)
  3. 100K Context Windows | (anthropic.com)
  4. GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt | (twitter.com/marvinvonhagen)
  5. Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy | (https://ag.ny.gov)
  6. Language models can explain neurons in language models | (openai.com)
  7. Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad | (apple.com)
  8. YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers | (bleepingcomputer.com)
  9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release | (zelda.com)
  10. HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals | (telegraph.co.uk)


 
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💸 Money Moves

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