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SIMPLY PUT: Founder Mode — the secret sauce to startup success or fancy term for hustle and micromanagement?
Founder Mode is the latest trend in Silicon Valley, emphasising a hands-on approach by CEOs in thei…
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Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham lays out why he's voting for Kamala Harris
Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator, urged moderates to vote for Kamala Harris in an open letter…
Jordan Hart
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Y Combinator is making its first weapons industry bet on a company that wants to be the SpaceX of missiles
Defense startup Ares Industries says it can make anti-ship cruise missiles that are 10 times cheape…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Y Combinator founder says Sam Altman wasn't fired
"People have been claiming YC fired Sam Altman. That's not true," said the startup accelerator's fo…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Veteran investor Paul Graham breaks down why Sam Altman left Y Combinator
Paul Graham said Altman wasn't fired from Y Combinator, a rumor that has persisted ever since he le…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Founder Mode — the secret sauce to startup success or fancy term for hustle and micromanagement?
Silicon Valley's latest trend, 'Founder Mode,' is gaining traction. Inspired by Airbnb CEO Brian Ch…
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Landeed raises $8.3 million in seed funding from Bayhouse Capital, Draper Associates & more
The startup, which was founded in 2022, aims to hit the ground running with the seed funds. …
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Insider Today: Y Combinator's Demo Day decline
Y Combinator's Demo Day has lost some of its luster due to VCs cutting deals ahead of time. Microso…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Y Combinator warns startup founders that 'things don't look good' in the economy right now and shares 8 tips to survive a downturn
The famous incubator told founders that no one can "predict how bad the economy will get" and told …
Katie Canales
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Y Combinator lays off 20% staff, scales back on late-stage investments
US-based technology startup accelerator Y Combinator is laying off 17 employees -- or 20 per cent o…
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How Y Combinator-backed Seabound is using carbon-capture tech to tackle the shipping industry's problematic emissions
Shipping accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Seabound believes its tech can p…
Tasmin Lockwood
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I'm a generative AI startup founder who got into Y Combinator this year. But I turned them down for Neo, another smaller accelerator program. Here's why.
Wesley Tian's generative AI startup Aragon AI was accepted into both Y Combinator and Neo this spri…
Madeline Renbarger
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E-commerce startup Bolt wants to raise new money under aggressive terms that could make its once-ousted founder rich, reports say
Bolt founder Ryan Breslow proposes returning as CEO with a $2 million bonus and $1 million in back …
Shubhangi Goel
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A Y Combinator-backed startup just raised $39 million to develop new psychedelic treatments for depression
Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals is working to develop psychedelics that work faster and may be free of ha…
Yeji Jesse Lee
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Y Combinator pulls back from late-stage startup investing to focus on its core accelerator program, and parts ways with 17 employees
Y Combinator decided to refocus after finding that late-stage investing was a "distraction" from it…
Madeline Renbarger
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Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow called Stripe and Y Combinator the 'mob bosses' of Silicon Valley in a Twitter thread that sparked a fiery debate
Breslow's explosive Twitter thread was hotly debated among VCs and startup founders, who contend th…
Madeline Renbarger
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Y Combinator founder Paul Graham thinks stock market investors are missing out on the AI boom
In a recent tweet, Graham said he believes all the good AI companies to invest in are still private…
Vishal Persaud
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India’s fintech funding shrinks over 60% to $2 billion
In spite of the fall, India ranked third globally in 2023 in terms of fintech startup funding. Worl…
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I'm a tech startup founder. We weed out job applications written with ChatGPT by hiding a prompt just for AI in our listings
Tech startup Intrinsic uses prompt injection in their job posts to catch candidates who use AI to w…
Sarah Jackson
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Y Combinator CEO on leaving Palantir: 'I'm working like a dog for Peter Thiel... Who's the real chump?'
Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator, was Palantir's tenth employee, but decided to join Y Combinator…