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Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas both went through YC in 2010. Fifteen years and two iconic companies later— FutureAdvisor and PagerDuty— they're back, this time as YC's newest General Partners. Welcome, @jonxu and Andrew! ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-j…

Find Your People (the commencement speech I just gave at Bucknell): foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-peop…

Just some partners at YC making chili for the YC batch Tom Blomfield Pete Koomen

Good Writing: paulgraham.com/goodwriting.ht…

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

Pretty much the worst thing to do is happening: instead of brain draining the world now the best startups will happen outside of the United States Colossal blunder at the dawn of the age of intelligence

Don't mock the Trump administration when they walk back stupid policies. That's the direction we want them to move, away from stupid.

In today's Social Radars' episode, we talk to Ron Conway about the unbelievably turbulent life of Napster, the first on-demand music app. pod.link/1677066062/epi…

It turns out that the University of Austin isn't committed to free speech after all. If you write a post that offends a big donor, you're fired.

The Shape of the Essay Field: paulgraham.com/field.html

This cover story came out 16 years ago! It kind of feels like only yesterday. Thanks Max Chafkin ([email protected])

After our latest Social Radars interview with Ron Conway about Napster: Clevy: Those are tons of stories I've never heard before. It's great. Ron: Yes, we tore up the NDAs for this one.

A lot of people seem to be treating this as if it were just a beef. But the underlying allegation is a very serious one. If it's true, Trump is surely going to have to resign.

This is so fucked up. A sitting US senator being handcuffed for trying to ask a question at a DHS news conference? No matter what your political party, you can't think this is a good thing.

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.

Garry Tan I spoke recently at the entrepreneurship club at a high school. I couldn't quite say it openly, but I wanted to tell them they should all just be in the programming club instead.

If someone had told me 5 years ago that I'd be saying that, I wouldn't have believed it. "What will have happened to the world?" I'd have asked. So I'm asking: what has happened to the world? Let's not start treating this as normal, because it isn't.

Thank you Elon Musk for talking to 2,000 technical college students at YC’s AI Startup School. It’s the biggest event we’ve ever done and the energy has been unlike anything I’ve experienced before. Everyone can feels that we’re living through a unique moment in time right now.

YC is better at helping people pivot and find the thing that could be huge than any other investor or program or school or literally anything that exists Helping founders escape the idea maze and find PMF is the reason why YC exists

Peacefully coexisting on a Sunday morning.