The surprising thing I believe now after coming back as CEO of YC: The size of your round doesn’t matter. Having 70 mo runway gives you a lot of shots but it doesn’t get you product market fit. The thing that matters: you must be a great builder solving a real problem.

Last few days to apply for Y Combinator’s fall batch! 🙌🙌After hundreds of customer interviews, what pain points do you know about your customers? Send me screenshots of your application, and I might roast it! #YCApply #Startups

Yesterday, we helped a Y Combinator company find all custom home builders in the US within five minutes and exclude certain types like general contractors and others. Previously, searching with other data providers required extensive filtering efforts over several days.

👀 LLM monitoring + user monitoring = Keywords AI (YC W24) After speaking with 20+ founders in recent days. They all loved how Keywords AI combines user monitoring, management, and analytics with LLM monitoring. Keywords AI (YC W24) offers: - Complete user observability. - Detailed user

8 hours of sleep is not a walk of shame but a stride of pride.

Key takeaways from Bryan Johnson /dd: Stress impacts longevity. Manage it by sleeping early, exercising, and eating healthy. Can use Whoop & Eight Sleep to monitor and improve sleep. I slept at 11:30 pm last night and feel great today!

Yesterday, we helped a Y Combinator company find all accounting firms and gave their sales team a location visualization in 5 minutes. They had spent months building an internal system for the same purpose.

Jamie Brown Currently, we can only provide intelligence primarily in the US. calendly.com/kathryn-openma… Can help you set up real quick if you have needs in the US🫡

I’ve been testing Open Mart for the last 5 days. Love it. It truly helps me fill the gaps in contact data that Apollo or Zoom are unable to locate. I have a follow up with the OpenMart team tomorrow to find more use cases for my business. Overall extremely happy with the

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This week: Quary generates docs from SQL. Next week: Quary generates SQL from English. Next next week: 🏖️

Allbirds stock trades below $1 per share, or ~$100m market cap Most people just say 'DTC is hard' when telling the story of allbirds - but there's a deeper lesson in this story, and one that I think every DTC operator should hear let's break down where Allbirds went wrong 👇👇

Twitter is much better than LinkedIn for building in public. LinkedIn has too many people who are just looking for jobs, while Twitter is where people are searching for innovative solutions

Today, Openmart (YC W24) helped a Series A company close a deal with a nonprofit by providing leads they couldn’t find either on Apollo or ZoomInfo. We used comprehensive data sources like BBB.org and different others. Get you a demo at openmart.ai.

Group 3 meetup> Thanks for organizing, Richard Zhang! Make a bet – how many unicorns will there be in this video in the future? 🚀🫡

We’re hiring another founding engineer to join us on this exciting ride, have fun, and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You won’t regret it.