YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead
which is great, but how do you Lindsay Amos / @lindsayaamos : “Everyone overestimates what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in 10,” @garrytan said. “That's true for startups,...
YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead
Venture capital firms are bringing San Francisco's startup culture to Washington as they try to tip the regulatory scales away from giants in the sector. X: @typewriters , @gilduran76 , @lindsayaamos ...
Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital
YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community. https://www.forbes.com/... @initialized : News alert: Congratulations to @jenhwolf & @brettdg, our new managing partners. Jen & Brett joi...
YC's decision to remove two of its CEOs who critiqued the accelerator publicly from its program raises questions about how YC moderates its community
TechCrunch : Tweets: @pardesoteric , @lzsthw , and @martinsfp Tweets: Arielle Pardes / @pardesoteric : “I think YC has become an institution, and institutions are viewed with high scrutiny,” says @ga...
Prim: Anatomy of a folded startup
The YCombinator-backed laundry pick-up and delivery business barely lasted 7 months. One of its founders walks Fortune through the post-mortem. — FORTUNE - Can technology disrupt even the most mund...
A Venture SLA
There is an opportunity for a new VC Firm to brand itself. Recent brands in Venture Capital arose from transparency and founder-friendliness. YCombinator gives new, young, technical talent an entry ...
Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company
(I'm live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. Mark Zuckerberg is on-stage for a question-and-answer session. You can watch it h...
Scribd Goes Straight, Bans Porn
Scribd, the “YouTube for documents”, has announced that it will be removing all pornographic material from the site beginning May 21. — Here's the announcement from the site's blog: … So how will th...
WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites
A new YCombinator startup called WebMynd launched today. It's a Firefox add-on that records every website you visit and saves a virtual copy on your hard drive. — The service doesn't save just an i...
Disqus launches Blog Commenting App
Disqus, about which fellow blogger Ashish Singh had written about couple of months back, today finally launched it's feature-full blog commenting system. Among others, the YCombinator startup compete...