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Garry Tan: Y Combinator Startups Growing 5X Faster – Here’s What Changed

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Oct 17, 2025
AI changed everything. During their time at Y Combinator, startups typically grew revenue weekly by 2-4%. Now? 10-20%! PER WEEK. YC President Garry Tan told me the reason is simple: AI transformed software from a “nice to have” into an urgent necessity. “Before it was like,...

How The Author Of “Founders At Work” Helps Y Combinator Discover And Mentor Startups

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Apr 19, 2010
How does Jessica Livingston do it? How does she look at new, (usually) unproven entrepreneurs and figure out which of them are worth banking Y Combinator's money, reputation and mentorship on? When I asked her co-founder at Y Combinator, Paul Graham, he said she has a "social radar." "She is very rarely wrong," he told me....

How Y Combinator Helped 172 Startups Take Off

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Feb 10, 2010
I interviewed 3 startups that Paul Graham helped launch through Y Combinator. Each told me about a specific piece of advice that he gave them that turned their business around. How does he do it? That's what I asked in this interview.

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