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This Week at YC

March 8th, 2024

Today Clipboard Health is an incredible company with a product used by thousands of healthcare facilities, and was most recently valued at over a billion dollars. 

But the idea they're known for today isn't the idea they started with.

I recently interviewed Clipboard Health founder Wei Deng to learn more about what Garry Tan calls "one of the most impressive pivots" he has ever seen. Find my notes from that interview here:

My favorite bit: how, and why, she turned getting rejections from VCs "into a game."

- Greg 

🌎 YC Community

Highlights and news from around YC
Ubicloud wants to build an open source alternative to AWS
TechCrunch
Metaplane nets $13M to detect data anomalies with AI
VentureBeat
"Founders are always worried about competition, but startups are so hard that most of your competitors will shoot themselves in the foot at some point.

Most of the time you can win by just not dying.
"

- YC Group Partner Jared Friedman
Deel acquires Africa’s PaySpace, says it’s crossed $500M in ARR
TechCrunch

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches 
Reduce recruiting overhead, interview more candidates, and make better hiring decisions.
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The first travel credit card for Generation Z.                     
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Use AI to automate the most tedious parts of software development.
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Product search featuring recommendations from creators you trust.
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Building night vision with AI.
W2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS" (github.com)
    1252 points by ent101 | 311 comments

  2. Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) (eloquentjavascript.net)
    1038 points by vajdagabor | 188 comments

  3. OpenAI and Elon Musk (openai.com)
    1031 points by mfiguiere | 966 comments

  4. European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)
    1019 points by mbrubeck | 636 comments

  5. Claude 3 model family (www.anthropic.com)
    1009 points by marc__1 | 674 comments

  6. Akira Toriyama has died (noisypixel.net)
    966 points by gaoryrt | 192 comments

  7. Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative (ente.io)
    960 points by madmax108 | 323 comments

  8. Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS (techcrunch.com)
    953 points by madtrax | 983 comments

  9. French court issues damages award for violation of GPL (heathermeeker.com)
    926 points by bookstore-romeo | 434 comments

  10. Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing (www.ftc.gov)
    874 points by nabla9 | 606 comments
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