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July 21st, 2024

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First week of YC S24!

After wrapping up the retreat last week, founders kicked off S24 with wisdom from OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Stripe's Patrick Collison, AWS founder & Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, and Airbnb's Brian Chesky. Get the first look at what teams in the current batch are working on as they launch each week.

Enterprise Sales | Startup School

Group Partner (and YC W10 alum!) Pete Koomen led his startup, Optimizely, to $100M ARR. In this latest video for Startup School, Pete breaks down the enterprise sales funnel and shares his tips on how a technical founder can start closing real deals for their startup.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Exa (S21) raises $17M to build Google for AIs
TechCrunch
Leya (W24) raises $25M in Series A funding to scale legal work with AI
Leya
"A good startup idea in someone's brain is usually a 1mm head start at the beginning of a marathon."

- Garry Tan on X/Twitter
A new credit card for NYC millionaires has over 30,000 people on the waitlist
Fortune 

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
A fully immersive comic reading and creation platform that uses audio effects.
S2024
Building open source tools that give you the simplicity of a monolith alongside the scalability of microservices.
S2024
Streamlining the process of buying insurance, underwriting, getting support, and filing a claim with AI.
S2024
Google for scientific research. It finds exactly what you need, no matter how complex, using an AI agent.
S2024
AI-powered Accounts Receivable at a fraction of the cost.
S2024
Microbes for metal extraction, enabling cleaner and cheaper mining of difficult-to-process ores.                             
S2024
Effortlessly extract web data at scale. No code. No maintenance. No worries.
S2023
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (reddit.com)
    4427 points by BLKNSLVR | 3788 comments

  2. Panic at the Job Market (matt.sh)
    1694 points by speckx | 1555 comments

  3. My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website (naya.lol)
    1407 points by fintler | 508 comments

  4. Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs (scale-lang.com)
    1325 points by Straw | 402 comments

  5. We need visual programming. No, not like that (sbensu.com)
    1172 points by stopachka | 491 comments

  6. Use a work journal (fev.al)
    1078 points by charles_f | 289 comments

  7. I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century (roadway.report)
    704 points by Bencarneiro | 427 comments

  8. The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time (justinmath.com)
    363 points by harperlee | 220 comments

  9. The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements (anu.edu.au)
    357 points by zsrobinson | 85 comments

  10. Minuteman missile communications (computer.rip)
    343 points by sklargh | 56 comments
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