Early Deadline for YC Winter 2022
The early deadline to apply for the YC Winter 2022 batch is July 19 at 8pm PT. As we wrote last batch, we created an early deadline to give founders access to YC on their timelines. Learn more about who the early deadline is for and when you will hear back with a decision here. 

Y Combinator Top Companies - July 2021
YC companies raise money year round — leading to the YC Top Companies list becoming outdated almost as soon as it’s published. To combat this, moving forward the list will be refreshed every six months, in February and July. With that said, explore our newest list, which now includes more than 160 companies valued at $150M+. Together, the companies on July’s list are valued at more than $400B+ and have created more than 70,000 full-time jobs.

YC is CRISPR for Startups
Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. We are now funding hundreds of companies each batch, and I’ve been reflecting on how we work with those companies during the batch and afterward, as they build their business.

Hear from Michael Seibel on Answering the Uncomfortable Questions
Listen to YC's Michael Seibel in an interview with LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman: "Barreling full-speed ahead isn’t always the key to scale. For Michael Seibel, managing director at Y Combinator and co-founder of Justin.tv and Socialcam, action sometimes needs to take a back seat to asking: “Is this working?” Michael learned early on that by stopping to ask the counterintuitive question, he gained the wisdom – and avoided time lost to big mistakes – that ultimately propelled him forward. At Y Combinator, he’s helping other founders ask themselves uncomfortable questions. The answers aren’t always obvious, and sometimes they seem downright irrational. But following where they lead, he says, feeds efficiency, confidence, and ambition. That’s why the ability to ask the right questions at the right times of the right people is an essential skill for every entrepreneur.” Listen here.

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