Jessica Livingston & Paul Graham: The Untold Story Behind Y Combinator
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Jessica Livingston & Paul Graham: The Untold Story Behind Y Combinator
337 просмотров · 5 месяцев назад
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337 просмотров · 5 месяцев назад
She's not a programmer. She's not a typical tech founder. But without Jessica Livingston, Y Combinator, the world’s most prestigious startup accelerator would not exist — and thousands of companies might never have launched.
Y Combinator has backed over 5,000 companies, collectively worth over a trillion dollars. Everyone knows the names of storied companies that began as Silicon Valley startups: Airbnb. Stripe. Dropbox. But the story of how YC actually became YC (and the co-founder who made it possible) has rarely been told.
In this episode, Jessica Livingston and her husband and co-founder Paul Graham share never-before-heard stories from YC's founding: the winding career path that gave Jessica an unlikely but perfect skill set, how a husband and wife built one of the most important institutions in startup history, and the secret to what Paul calls "the magic of Y Combinator".
🎙️ HOST: David Rusenko — founder of Weebly (acquired by Square for $365M), now backing early-stage founders at Leap Forward Ventures.
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