Excited to announce the YC alums joining us as new Visiting Group Partners for the Summer 2024 batch!

Welcome back, Andrew, Ooshma Garg, and Jon Xu! ycombinator.com/blog/meet-ycs-…

Yesterday we wrapped up the W24 batch. We did a lot of things for the first time this batch.

Here were the high points for me ...

Meet the new (knockoff) hosts of the Y Combinator Lightcone podcast.

Here talking about pivot hell, tarpit ideas, and talking to users.

(Executive producer: Gustaf Alströmer)

Zepto went from 0 to 4M subscribers in 6 weeks with a new product.

When you've made a product people love, often your business has built up potential energy. When you figure out how to tap it, you get results like these.

We kind of have to accelerate here

Thanks Y Combinator for sharing our story! Really cool to make it on the pod and get a shutout from Garry Tan 💥♻️ e/acc, Harj Taggar and Jared Friedman

And thanks to the partners that supported us during the batch - Michael Seibel and Brad Flora

19:12 to hear about us!🚀🪨…

This code review startup from YC W24 is getting great buzz from other founders because of how well it actually works Ellipsis (YC W24)

The video embedded on their website explains it pretty well ellipsis.dev

There's a W24 startup whose customers love their product so much that 3 out of 5 invested.

Most YC startups have to balance growing the business against talking to investors around Demo Day. This company can just close more customers and get their round done at this rate.

Terrible news. Mahbod was the biggest personality in S11, the guy that made everyone else question if they were being aggressive enough with their startup. A founder who cleared PG’s animal test epically and yet was never anything but kind and encouraging in conversation. My…

Congrats to the YC w24 batch on finishing day one of Demo Day!

Very exciting news for SimpleHash YC W22! As more and more on-chain assets launch every year, they've become the top choice for developers looking to pull data about them into their applications. Congrats guys!

The YC partners are getting on a plane and coming to Boston on April 20th to meet engineering majors at MIT, Harvard and nearby schools who are interested in starting startups.

(Just like the time the Reddit founders came to see PG in 2005)

Apply now

ycombinator.com/blog/startup-s…

'Reddit the site (and now app) is such a fundamentally useful thing that it's almost unkillable. Which is why, despite a long stretch after Steve left when the management strategy ranged from benign neglect to spectacular blunders, traffic just kept growing. You can't do that…

I’ve noticed a pattern with some AI startups that are producing flashy demos with very low customer engagement.

They are usually solving occasional problems.

An example is “use natural language to query a database”.

Most employees at a tech company don’t actually write SQL…

the soul leaving a founder’s body when they go upmarket

Michael is a tremendous leader who also to happens to give incredible advice to founders batch after batch. I’ve learned so much from watching him help startups over the years in small and sometimes not so small ways and am excited for all the founders he’s going to work with…

YC recently moved its headquarters to a new campus in San Francisco and it's amazing. It only took us 19 years, 4 previous offices and 1 global pandemic to get here. We tell the whole story in this Lightcone episode.