Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
founder, techno-optimist, college dropout, partner at @ycombinator.
Yesterday we hosted 400 top university students at the YC Summer Conference - a fun day of talks about startups. Talking to the students afterwards, I found myself giving a lot of the same advice. So in case it's useful to others, here is my startup advice for students.
I usually don’t like sharing these stuff, but YC reach and distribution kick is insane honestly. Our servers literally broke yesterday
If you're interested in AI Coding Agents and want to try building one yourself, this hackathon @ YC is for you.
We're hosting a hackathon @ycombinator office with @morphllm @samedotdev to build the next Lovable! lu.ma/hzwlapu0
The @gigaml founders are in the elite founder tier for both IQ and how hardcore their work ethic is. At their current growth rate, they'll be one of the leading AI companies within a year. There's nowhere better to join for the most hardcore engineers: jobs.ashbyhq.com/gigaml
if you’re afraid to launch, just do it anyway. we squeezed ours in on an hours notice and I don’t regret it the YC network is truly next level @snowmaker @garrytan 🙏🏻
This is what the @orangesliceai founders woke up to after launching yesterday.
I generally wouldn't post about stuff like this but YC reach is genuinely insane. we had to switch to our personal calendars because we hit calendar rate limits on our google business accounts
Build a company good enough to get bought twice.
This is a good way to think of AI agent startup ideas.
The biggest AI Agent opportunities are going to be in categories of work where there could be a 10X or 100X increase in demand if the cost of executing certain tasks went down dramatically. The key is to find categories of work where there’s a significant amount of…
Lawyers were the original prompt engineers. They've been programming in English long before the rest of us.
I'll be there!
Smart Glasses Hackathon July 12-13 At @ycombinator in SF 100 pairs of smart glasses. 100 cracked devs. 48 hours at YC. Prizes are smart glasses. Only smart glasses. 1/3 of hackers will win free smart glasses. What will you build? Sign up below.
Alexandr Wang has come a long way, from presenting Scale at Demo Day to being an inspiration to the next generation of founders everywhere At YC, we salute you @alexandr_wang and can’t wait to see what’s next from Meta with your leadership
Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) started Scale AI to help machine learning teams label data faster. It started as a simple API for human labor, but behind the scenes, he was tackling a much bigger problem: how to turn messy, real-world data into something AI could learn from.…
Pleasure to come by the YC AI Startup School today! I'm told the recordings will be up "in the coming weeks", I'll link to it then and include the slides. Thank you YC for organizing and bringing together an awesome group of builders! events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus Fun fact is that…
Thought provoking points from @karpathy at AI Startup School today. Made me see LLMs in a whole new light.
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…
Pleasure to come by the YC AI Startup School today! I'm told the recordings will be up "in the coming weeks", I'll link to it then and include the slides. Thank you YC for organizing and bringing together an awesome group of builders! events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus Fun fact is that…
Thought provoking points from @karpathy at AI Startup School today. Made me see LLMs in a whole new light.
“this is the best fucking time to start a startup” ~ @sama 👍👍
What's funny is that if you had asked me about Supabase's growth in December 2024 I would have told you it was excellent.
new users per week is exploding on @supabase. where are you on this graph?
Getting set up for AI Startup School - starts tomorrow.
