Breakthrough consumer products in the last 20 years. Why do Indians suck at making any consumer product successful ?
Apoorv Khandelwal
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AG Advisers • 12m
From the list provided, the following companies were part of Y Combinator:
1. Reddit (2005)
2. Twitch (2007)
3. Airbnb (2007)
4. Coinbase (2012)
5. Doordash (2013)
6. Instacart (2012)
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.
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Havish Gupta
Figuring Out • 4m
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?
Things that didn't exist 24 years ago:
iPhone
iPod
Facebook
YouTube
Twitter
Instagram
Android
Bitcoin
Tesla
TikTok
iPad
Gmail
WhatsApp
Shopify
Netflix streaming
Snapchat
Zoom
Chrome
Etsy
Twitch
Google Maps
Amazon Prime
Airbnb
Uber
Dropbox
LinkedIn
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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
Story of Airbnb: From Air Mattresses to a Global Hospitality Empire
In 2007, roommates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia couldn’t afford rent in San Francisco. With a design conference in town and hotels fully booked, they rented out air mattresses in the
Coinbase founder shares the Y Combinator advice that helped Coinbase find product/market fit
The first version of any product rarely works, and that’s exactly what happened with Coinbase.
When Brian Armstrong, the founder, launched Coinbase, it wa
Many people have asked me if Sam Altman owns 0% of OpenAI, how could he afford to invest and fund projects the way he does?
1) Note on Early Exit:
Sam co-founded a startup called Loopt in college. It wasn’t a massive success, but it sold for $43.4
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗯𝗻𝗯
Most people wait for the “perfect time” to start their dream project. Brian Armstrong didn’t.
He built Coinbase while wor
Brian Armstrong tells the founding story of Coinbase: “Nothing was working”
Brian Armstrong's journey to building Coinbase wasn’t easy.
In 2012, he left his job and joined Y Combinator to follow his dream of creating something big.
But things di
Sam Altman started coding at the age of 8.
Born in 1985, Chicago, attended John Burroughs School and later to Stanford Univ, dropped out in 2005. Continued to pursue his passion for tech and entrepreneurship, founded Loopt (location based social netw
