Lulu Funding: Rare, Powerful Reality‑Distortion Field
Raising money from Lulu is like having a reality distortion field conjurer in your corner. Highly prized, incredibly rare.
Invest in the Next Coinbase at YC Demo Day
Highly recommend investing in the next Coinbase at YC Demo Day A+++++ incredible experience
Custom Weekend Code Will Outpace Pricey SaaS
Zoho’s business would be first to be competed away by people building their own custom software built by people using @Replit @emergentlabs and @Taskade Why pay $30/seat/month for over bundled SaaS when soon even nontech ops ppl can vibe-code a...
Avoid 50/50 Cap Table Deadlocks: They're Dangerous
From a lot of experience with lots of founding teams: 50/50 deadlock cap tables are considered harmful
YC Becomes Crypto’s Premier Startup Accelerator
YC is the YC for crypto
Bet on Weird Outliers, Not Consensus Seed Rounds
@HarryStebbings Invest in things that are weirder and you won’t be so circumspect about these rounds. The outliers are rarely consensus at seed
YC Persisted Funding Startups Throughout 2023 Despite VC Slowdown
YC kept funding people through 2023 when many VCs scaled back
YC Funds the Underdogs Most, and They Thrive
YC is funny because for everything we get hate for, we fund those and fund of that kind by #'s than anyone else Solos Non-traditional background Anything not B2B SaaS Almost any category, we do the most # of anyone, and the ones we...
Build AI Moats with Workflow, Data, UX—Start Now
The real moats in 2025: specific workflows, proprietary data with real switching costs, distribution, and UX that makes AI disappear into the job-to-be-done. Simultaneously: we are early (only a % are using AI properly) so this is an amazing time to...
YC Demo Day Cuts Dilution, Boosts Investor Returns
YC Demo Day median dilution for small seed is 11% (top 25% is 7%), not 18% for non-YC YC Demo Day median dilution for big seed is 13%, not 21% to 23% for non-YC You do it all faster: YC funds you...
Build for Users, Not Just for Funding
It was never “build what’s fundable” and it isn’t now. It’s always been: make something people want. This comes from users and customers and the needs of others.
Funding Space Fusion, Not Just a Consensus Engine
We're funding space fusion and your take is we're building a consensus machine Maybe you need to look harder
AI Transforms Flexport Hackathons Into New Product Roadmaps
Flexport is at $2B annual revenue and just getting started. AI is so powerful it has turned internal hackathons into roadmaps for entire new product lines https://lnkd.in/g5pueCR7
YC's 15‑Partner GP Team Feels Like a Dream
YC is a partnership of 15 GPs who have all these qualities It’s honestly a dream
Scrappy Startups Outperform Overfunded Incumbents in Bake‑offs
Scrappy startup founders beating overfunded incumbents head to head in bake-offs https://t.co/8BZoeKUjM6
YC Targets 5x+ DPI, Promising Thousands of Happy Founders
YC’s goal: make all the mega funds 5x+ net DPI (And all the other funds small and medium sized too) If that happens there are a lot of happy founders. Thousands. Tens of thousands.
Startup Grind: Early Lessons, Endless Work, Rookie Mistakes
Here’s a fun artifact: @Jason grilling me (age 28) about my startup, convertible notes, and working 7 days a week along with @arrington A prequel to YC Garry, pre-15 years of hard knocks, didn’t figure out yet I shouldn’t get...
Root Ventures: Celebrating Top Hacker-Founder Engineer Investors
Huge congrats to Root Ventures, such a great team of hacker founder engineer investors - the best kind
Breadth Beats “Spray and Pray” At Seed Stage
Breadth matters at seed. “Spray and pray” is a lazy pejorative and LPs who insist on spreading that toxic meme will destroy the firms they invest in and and their own returns.
Skip Finishing Schools, Build Real Value and Relationships
Someone at the SF Standard is going to write a story about how I told people not to go to Slow Ventures Finishing School. FWIW I really like a bunch of the people who work there, and I have no...
Virality Amplifies Retention and Monetization, Not Guarantees Them
Going viral and having a high retention product people love (and pay for) are two different things Virality is just a multiplier on retention and monetization
