🧡 How YC Was Created with Jessica Livingston

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September 8th, 2024

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How YC Was Created with Jessica Livingston

Familiar with the lore of Y Combinator? Then you'll know Jessica Livingston - one of the original co-founders who started YC back in 2005. On a recent visit to our SF HQ, she shared the stories and decisions of the early days that would form the foundations of YC as we know it today.

Why AI Hasn’t Blown Our Minds…Yet

While many of AI's use cases have yet to be invented, it's already beginning to make an impact on the world behind the scenes. In this episode, Dalton and Michael explore the current state of AI tech and grapple with whether or not it lives up to their expectations.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Sequoia Backs Developer Startup Cortex (W20) at $470 Million Valuation
Bloomberg
Ziina (W21) banks $22M as growth explodes for the UAE-based fintech for small businesses
TechCrunch
Mintlify (W22) raises $18M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
Mintlify
A 22-year-old is betting on ‘swarms of AI agents’ to radically transform the humble spreadsheet
Fortune
Bland AI (S23) scores $16M to automate enterprise phone calls with agents
VentureBeat

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
LedgerUp - Your first and only finance hire
Using AI to automate bookkeeping and reporting for startups.
S2024
🌱 Sepal AI - Confidently deploy your AI models
We build benchmarks, evals, & training datasets for enterprises.
S2024
🎈 Helium: Improve your paywall at the speed of thought
Launch and personalize paywalls without code.
S2024
Winford AI - AI tools for institutional credit investors
We help credit investors make better underwriting decisions and easily monitor loan portfolios
S2024
Bucket Robotics 🤖 Vision for Manufacturing
Go from CAD model to defect detection system in the blink of an eye.
S2024
AnswerGrid - Scale your web research for relevant outbound
Find the most relevant leads worth the investment of manual outbound.
S2024
MinusX: AI Data Scientist for Jupyter and Metabase
An AI data scientist that is a scientist, not yet-another-new-analytics-platform.
S2024
Poka Labs: The Modern Operating System for Chemical Manufacturing
We put chemical production planning on autopilot
S2024
🧓 Clara - Better home care for seniors
Marketplace software for discovering, hiring, and managing in-home caregivers
S2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Is My Blue Your Blue? (ismy.blue)
    1419 points by bpierre | 522 comments

  2. Greppability is an underrated code metric (morizbuesing.com)
    1213 points by thunderbong | 607 comments

  3. 1M Users (blog.spacehey.com)
    782 points by theneedful | 184 comments

  4. The Art of Finishing (www.bytedrum.com)
    701 points by emmorts | 165 comments

  5. 2M users but no money in the bank (exercism.org)
    651 points by leandot | 337 comments

  6. Extreme Pi Boot Optimization (kittenlabs.de)
    556 points by todsacerdoti | 153 comments

  7. CSS @property and the new style (ryanmulligan.dev)
    529 points by surprisetalk | 178 comments

  8. The Engineering of Landfills (practical.engineering)
    520 points by impish9208 | 312 comments

  9. The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving (www.righto.com)
    482 points by GavinAnderegg | 85 comments

  10. OAuth from First Principles (stack-auth.com)
    480 points by n2d4 | 98 comments

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