Y Combinator (company)

Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator, started in March 2005.

In its main program, Y Combinator interviews and selects two batches of companies per year. The companies receive seed money, advice, and connections in exchange for 7% equity.[1] The program includes "office hours", where startup founders meet individually and in groups with Y Combinator partners for advice. Founders also participate in weekly dinners where guests from the Silicon Valley ecosystem (successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, etc.) speak to the founders.

As of 2017, Y Combinator had invested in ~1,450 companies including Dropbox, Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, Reddit, Instacart, Twitch, Cruise Automation, Optimizely, Zenefits, Docker, DoorDash, Mixpanel, Heroku, Machine Zone, Weebly, and Paribus.[4] The combined market capitalization of YC companies was over $80B.[5]

In 2017 Forbes ranked YC one of two "Platinum Plus Tier U.S. Accelerators".[46] Fast Company has called YC "the world's most powerful start-up incubator".[47] Fortune has called Y Combinator "a spawning ground for emerging tech giants".[48]

Y Combinator has been blamed for its encouragement of the ageism culture in Silicon Valley. Paul Graham said in 2005 that people over 38 lacked the energy to launch startups[32]. It was also at a Y Combinator event, the 2007 Startup School, that Mark Zuckerberg infamously said, "Young people are just smarter"[33].

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Everyone associated with this company needs to be checked into. Isn’t “Y” one of the things Q said to look for?

>>520795

It seems to be much more than that. Investing more than $. And look at who is on the list. Dropbox, Reddit, more…..

>>520992

I'll keep digging. Well said. Thanks very much for your excellent input.

Someone said they thought the next ff would be in the west. There is a Parkland, WA, near Tacoma. Two High Schools, one is Washington HS, mascot is the Patriots. Another school with an interesting name in this vein is Kennedy HS, in Burien. I hope and pray very much that there will be no more damage to people with these actions. These might be a couple to keep an eye on though.