Dalton & Michael on why you shouldn't copy your idols

This Week at YC

September 19, 2023

📺 Why You Shouldn't Copy Your Tech Idols

For this episode of Dalton & Michael, the pair dig into why some advice givers might be tempted to say “Do as I say, not as I did” and how they try to avoid doing that within YC.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights and news from around YC
Instacart (S12) prices IPO at $30 a share
New York Times
"In 2012 this was what I wrote to the partners when I got that six pack of beer from Instacart — this is a glimpse at what the YC partners do behind the scenes..."
YC president Garry Tan on X (Twitter)
Evidence (S21) brings open source business intelligence to technical data teams
TechCrunch
Stoke Space (W21) completes milestone test in quest to build a fully reusable rocket
TechCrunch

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches 
Epsilon - AI search engine for academic research
Get answers to research questions with citations to academic literature
W2023Artificial Intelligence, Education, Productivity
BricksAI - A simple OpenAI access manager for enterprises
BricksAI helps enterprises develop LLM apps more securely
S2022Developer Tools, B2B
NUMI - Your startup's design department
A full-suite design department for startups, on subscription
W2020Design, Design Tools
OWNY - AI-centric capital and banking solutions
Owny helps startups and funds manage capital by giving them an AI-powered portal
S2018Banking as a Service, Fintech, Crypto / Web3, AI
DealPage - AI workflows for sales engineers
DealPage saves sales engineers time by automating tedious workflows with an AI copilot
W2023Documents, Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Sales
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. The Tyranny of the Marginal User (nothinghuman.substack.com)
    1545 points by ivee | 805 comments

  2. Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working (mullvad.net)
    1019 points by eptcyka | 245 comments

  3. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website (csvbase.com)
    1000 points by qsantos | 263 comments

  4. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    885 points by mycall | 501 comments

  5. Credit card debt collection (www.bitsaboutmoney.com)
    777 points by got-any-grapes | 541 comments

  6. iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus (www.apple.com)
    748 points by mikece | 1935 comments

  7. I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it (basta.substack.com)
    732 points by robdimarco | 531 comments

  8. Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source (ramatak.com)
    729 points by TMM2K | 629 comments

  9. Willingham sends Fables into the public domain (billwillingham.substack.com)
    717 points by Tomte | 265 comments

  10. Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates (blog.google)
    696 points by twapi | 403 comments
Read more on Hacker News

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Mighty Buildings (W18)
$52M
Oakland
TechCrunch: Mighty Buildings raises $52M to build 3D-printed prefab homes
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