My YC batch wrapped up yesterday & I wanted to share a few of the companies I was close with and think you should check out! @hoplite_sh - cloud agents with a beautiful design - their onboarding flow is incredible and gets you up and running super quickly @try_glen - organizati…↗

AI data labeling company @AfterQuery is now valued at $3.2 billion, sources say, 10xing its valuation since April. That would make it the fastest YC company to go from inception -> unicorn. Oh, and its founders are 22 and 23 years old. forbes.com/sites/annatong…↗

Thoughts from a quant fund founder + former Bridgewater quant: Many people have asked the obvious question: why go through YC and raise VC capital instead of just launching a fund? In my opinion, this isn't the relevant question. It makes a lot of sense for this kind of company…↗

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious log…↗

sam altman: “honestly, i feel so bad about the advice i gave while running YC i’ve been thinking about deleting my entire blog”↗

I’ve learned a lot about giving advice over the past 5 years at YC (still more to learn). When I started I had a very formulaic / tactical view of how startups succeed. Over time and after seeing over 1000 startups go through YC that has changed.↗

Time for a story, since @gustaf is asking for some stories about talking to users for a YC presentation. This is how Lambda School was born, and it's way less sexy than everyone assumes.↗

@eriktorenberg @jrdngonen @dksf @CaseyNeistat @368 YC took off in part because of the lack of education and a playbook for starting a company and raising money. I’m not sure YC would be a fraction of what it is today if it started in 2018. So, which industries today have a simil…↗