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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Y Combinator's all-star alum and VC Garry Tan returns to take over the accelerator as its chief executive
Tan will take over for Geoff Ralston next year as the CEO of the startup accelerator Y Combinator, …
Madeline Renbarger,Melia Russ…
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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…
Will Gendron
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Y Combinator entrepreneurs say they were kicked out of the accelerator for criticizing its founders and slamming efforts to skip vaccine lines
Prolific CEO Katia Damer and Dark CEO Paul Biggar said they were kicked out for criticizing misogyn…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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These 10 Indian startups are taking part in Y Combinator’s demo day
One of the world’s most renowned accelerator programmes, Y Combinator, is concluding its summer pro…
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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 was an enclave where tech founders rubbed shoulders with billionaires. Then the coronavirus hit.
In Insider Weekly, we're looking at how COVID pushed Y Combinator into a big growth spurt and what …
Matt Turner,Phil Rosen
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I got into Y Combinator as a solo founder and left with a $4.5 million investment. Here's how I got in on my second try and what it was like.
Y Combinator's Demo Day helped startup founder Kathryn Cross raise $4.5 million from investors like…
Claire Turrell
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27 biotech execs who've sold the most stock
These are Business Insider's biggest healthcare stories for October 29.
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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WINNING Y COMBINATOR: Read the successful applications that hot startups used to win a spot in the accelerator that launched Airbnb and Dropbox
The admissions process at Y Combinator is notoriously selective: Roughly 1.6% of the companies that…
Shana Lebowitz
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Reddit has named a new board member after founder Alexis Ohanian quit and urged the company to name a Black candidate in his place
Reddit's board appointment comes after Ohanian stepped down from his seat last week in what he call…