👋🏽 Welcome Surbhi, Nicolas, Divya, Ashu, and Tom
We’re excited to welcome two new full-time Group Partners (Surbhi Sarna and Nicolas Dessaigne) and three W22 Visiting Group Partners (Divya Bhat, Ashu Desai and Tom Blomfield) to YC!

📹Rookie Mistakes, with YC's Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell
Introducing Rookie Mistakes, a new series where Michael and Dalton go over stories of rookie mistakes — shared by YC founders — and how to avoid them as an early stage startup. Catch the first episode, on co-founder mistakes.

🧠 Think Different. Think Users.
It’s almost impossible to build a successful company just by doing what everyone else is doing. Jessica Livingston, Co-Founder of Y Combinator, spoke on the importance of thinking differently at our Aspiring Founders Forum this week.

🆈 Startup Career Expo on December 2nd
We're bringing together 30+ YC startups & their founders to network and share open roles in engineering, product & design. RSVP and meet virtually with founders of startups from seed stage to growth and find your next role.

Top Posts on Hacker News
• Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) (zachholman.com)
• Vertiwalk Vertical Walking (vertiwalk.com)
• Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence (ponymessenger.com)
• “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says (niemanlab.org)
• Individuals Matter (danluu.com)
• How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home (crystalverse.com)

Jobs at YC Startups 
• Hyperseed, No-Code for Finance (YC S21) Is Hiring a Part-Time UI/UX Designer
• Reflect (YC S20) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer
• Hera (YC S21) is hiring a front-end engineer – $60K-$90K andequity – Remote UTC+-3
• Release (YC W20) Is Hiring a Director of Product Management
• Terra (YC W21) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer in London
• Akiflow (YC S20) Is Hiring

From the YC Community
• "Announcing Cron, the company I founded almost two years ago" - Raphael Schaad (Cron, W20)
• Wholesale Marketplace Faire Raises $400 Million - Faire, W17
• Andrea Day of CNBC reports on Landed, W19
• Meet The Under 30s Quietly Revolutionizing The World, featuring Alexandr Wang (Scale AI, S16) and Alex Rodrigues (Embark Trucks, W16)