This is my post about the Y Combinator application deadline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

7 hours and 6 pages of notes later, I’m still freaking out about being in the same room as all of the Y Combinator group partners. So many takeaways and lessons learned from YC startup school Boston!! The best time to build and be in the world of startups is now.

Wow, just watched this, what a great epsiode by Dalton Caldwell and Lenny Rachitsky, a must watch! I don't know anyone else who knows more about startups than Dalton. Kudos to Lenny for getting so many nuggets out of him in this episode.

We’re excited to welcome David Lieb as our newest Group Partner!

David co-founded Bump, part of YC's S09 batch. In 2013 Bump was acquired by Google, where he took Google Photos from inception to over 1B users. ycombinator.com/blog/david-lie…

Dalton Caldwell (Dalton Caldwell) is Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator. During his time at YC, he’s worked with over 1,000 startups, advised more than 35 YC unicorns—including DoorDash, Amplitude Studios, @Webflow, and @Retool—across 21 different YC batches, and racked up

When making important decisions as a founder— like what to build or how it should work— should you spend lots of time gathering input or just trust your gut?

Dalton Caldwell + Michael Seibel discuss when you should spend time validating, and when to just commit.

▶️ youtu.be/2ViqdR5E2wU

Was just talking to the founder of Aleph from YC S21 and was super impressed to hear they have Zapier, Notion and Webflow as customers.

FP&A tooling is actually pretty interesting :)

Today we're excited to introduce Muddy, the browser that knows you and your crew. Working with others is messy. Muddy’s AI makes it simple.

We're starting the rollout today. Invite link in bio and below ⬇️

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Expanding on Dalton’s insightful and accurate tweet, I’ve repeatedly noticed that people who are adept at the art of “spin” and are not truthful, tend to have a distorted relationship with not just truth but reality. In some cases, they believe their own lies. In other cases,

This code review startup from YC W24 is getting great buzz from other founders because of how well it actually works Ellipsis (YC W24)

The video embedded on their website explains it pretty well ellipsis.dev

Turns out you could also build foundation models for biology. This is what Diffuse Bio has done to build a genAI for protein discovery. What's cool is Namrata Anand built this during the batch by hacking computation to need less with custom kernels

Congrats to Beeper from YC S21!

The best and worst decisions compound.

Industrial grade glycine tiktok is the best tiktok.

People that are uncurious and frustrated by things they don’t understand are setting themselves up to be very unhappy when they get old.

Day 0 of post- #YC

Obligatory celebration toast!

It’s been an unforgettable journey. Thank you so much Y Combinator, all our YC partners, especially Dalton Caldwell, David Lieb, Pete Koomen and Garry Tan 💥♻️ e/acc, customers, investors and everyone who’ve supported in all the possible ways ❤️

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