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Bottom quartile investing at YC demo day is better than top quartile venture capital investing

Holistic college admissions? More like hostile and racist. 18-yo prodigy Stanley Zhong gets Google L4 but is rejected by 16 colleges. I sat with his YC-alum dad Nan, who sued UC to crack open the admissions black box. The American Dream demands merit not more racism 👇

We can never control the future but we can always influence it

The Tank Man remains a powerful symbol of courage. That same courage is needed today to stand against the evil forces of communism—both at home and abroad.

I came to the US on an F-1 student visa. Since then, I’ve built a company worth over $20 billion—headquartered in Pennsylvania. Student visas are one of America’s greatest talent funnels. Let’s not close the door behind us.

All organized matter in the universe must have 1. A barrier that defines the inside and outside, to prevent all its hard-won negentropy from dissipating 2. A mechanism that pumps the internally generated entropy out

The most needed AI model advancement is for it to stop lying At the very least, there should be a second pass "fact check" where it identifies factual claims (such as the existence of an API) and then checks against ground truth (e.g. source code) When will this happen?

Thanks to Dalton Caldwell and Paul Buchheit. Excited for their new VC fund! ycombinator.com/blog/dalton-ca…

Whoa! Story about PB. At the end of a meeting, he said follow me to the parking lot. Got in his M5, pulled a crumpled check out of his glovebox, filled in 100k+signature, told us to do the rest, and drove away. We had to pester him for docs later 😂

Cheers Dalton Caldwell - can’t imagine a better team to disrupt the Series A ecosystem and build a better product for founders.

Congrats Dalton Caldwell and Paul Buchheit!! i’ll miss working together, and at the same time this is great for startups’ series As

Dalton + PB is going to be a formidable combination. Each of them would be the smartest partner at a normal VC firm.

.Dalton Caldwell and Paul Buchheit are two of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with. Specifically, they’re the definition of independent, original thinkers. It’s going to be a refreshing change for founders who get to work with them vs the fomo driven investors they usually deal with.

I first got to know Dalton in 2009/2010 when we were both doing mobile startups. Getting to learn from him a decade later here at YC has been a real privilege. The new Series A product he's building with PB at Standard Capital is going to change VC. Thanks for everything, Dalton.

It's hard to overstate how much Dalton Caldwell has given to YC. Much of what I've learned about being a good YC partner came from watching him. Grateful to have gotten the chance to work so closely together.

The beginning is near! Follow us at Standard Capital

This is big news. I've known Dalton and PB for almost 20 years, and they both consistently have new insights about technology and startups. This is going to change Series A.

Founders, just one office hour with Paul Buchheit or Dalton Caldwell can change the trajectory of your company, and to have both of them on your side, is game changing! What an unbelievable combo! Had the fortunate chance to work with PB as our group partner when we went through YC, and

YC is the YC for hard tech

Not many people know this, but OpenAI was actually started at YC in 2015, and was initially known as "YC Research". We were concerned that all of the AI technology would be locked up inside of one company (Google), and so created a "moonshot" effort to make the technology