Y combinator is a 600 billion dollar startup school also known as silicon valley if your idea got selected there you will be great co like openAi, coinbase, Airbnb are the startups from Ycombinater
Y Combinator has invested in over 5000 startups with a total valuation of $600 billion.
Out of these, just 4 companies—Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, and DoorDash accounts for ~$300 billion of the valuation.
Fascinating, isn’t it?
Has anyone here ever been selected by Y Combinator?
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Kimiko
Startups | AI | info... • 14d
The next billion-dollar startups won’t come from Silicon Valley. They’ll come from creators who understand AI.
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Vaibhav Babruwan Shingde
Student • 1y
Title : The Y Combinator -> Turning Startups into Unicorns🚀🦄
• Y Combinator has a big impact on startups
• Its alumni includes famous tech companies like:
• Airbnb
• Dropbox
• Stripe
• Coinbase
• Zepto
• Razorpay
• Reddit
Billion-Dollar Startups With Bare-Bones Teams:
Silicon Valley is seeing a boom in minimalist unicorns.
• Safe Superintelligence: $5B, 10 people
• Adept: $1B, 25 people
• Midjourney: $10B, 49 people
Meanwhile, OpenAI operates with 2,500 employees -
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Chamarti Sreekar
Passionate about Pos... • 8m
YouTube algorithm started recommending me videos from 6+ years ago with folks from OpenAI.
Just realized that Sam Altman back then was President of Y Combinator and Co-Chairman of OpenAI.
In the early days of Airbnb, founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk struggled to find investors. They tried to raise $150,000 for 10% of the company but faced many rejections. Despite pitching to several prominent investors, no one
list of the top 10 Y Combinator startups
Airbnb - Marketplace for renting homes or booking stays.
Stripe - Payment processing for online businesses.
Dropbox - Cloud storage for file sharing.
DoorDash - Food delivery from local restaurants.
Ins
It feels like a lot of Indian startups are just repackaged versions of Silicon Valley ideas — Uber for X, Airbnb for Y, Amazon for Z. But India has completely different cultural, economic, and infrastructural realities.
Do we need to stop blindly fo
Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator, clarified that Sam Altman was not fired from his role as president of Y Combinator in 2019. Altman chose to leave to fully commit to his position as CEO of OpenAI after OpenAI announced a shift to a "capped-pro
