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Jon Xu

@xuster

Visiting Partner @YCombinator, Co-Founder at @FutureAdvisor (YC S10), MIT EECS

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Demo Day for @YCombinator S24 is in the books. It's been a privilege to work with these exceptional founders. They're building world-defining companies and I'm excited to see what's next.

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We applied to YC with 2 minutes to go from the deadline and it completely altered our trajectory. Plenty of time left today to apply if you're considering it. ycombinator.com/apply

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Y Combinator's 20th birthday is tomorrow. Here's what was happening on March 11, 2005: paulgraham.com/ycstart.html (Yeah, I know this tweet will get hidden because it has a link in it, and that I'm supposed to put the link in a reply. But that's so stupid that I refuse to do it.)

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Happy 20th Y Combinator! Grateful to PG, Jessica, Trevor and Robert for creating an enduring institution that gave so many of us a chance to build something people want. Immensely thankful that I can play a part in this recursive creation of prosperity. Here’s to the next 20 🚀

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We're excited to share that Spur has raised $4.5M, led by First Round to allow teams to own high quality testing We've partnered with some of the most customer centric companies like Wander Y Combinator Living Spaces Norse Atlantic Airways to deliver the best user experiences

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On a memorable evening in March 2010, we got the call from Paul Graham letting us know that YC wanted to fund us. It changed our lives and gave us a community of ambitious builders to invent the future with. I'm deeply grateful and beyond excited to be back at YC, working with the

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That's a wrap for the first Y Combinator Spring Batch demo day! Packed house at our place. Half of the companies started YC with just an idea. The batch still averaged 12% w/w growth. Excited for what’s ahead for these incredible founders 🚀

That's a wrap for the first <a href="/ycombinator/">Y Combinator</a> Spring Batch demo day! Packed house at our place.

Half of the companies started YC with just an idea. The batch still averaged 12% w/w growth. Excited for what’s ahead for these incredible founders 🚀
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One of the best parts about YC is that the community of great builders are so eager to share their learnings with each other. Thanks Charlene Wang, Finn Mallery and Emir Karabeg for coming back this week to speak with the S25 founders.