A Quote by Sam Altman

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
American - Businessman

The first time I went through YC, it was smaller, and the founders were younger. The advantage of that was that the set of founders who were older than us had really seen the Web 1.0 meltdown. They brought that knowledge to us.

Michael Seibel

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

Sam Altman

There is a directory where you can explore every single person who has gone through YC and a private forum that only founders can participate in.

Michael Seibel

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

Sam Altman

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.

Noam Chomsky

In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.

Patrick Collison

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

Peter Latham

One of the biggest mistakes that founders can make is doing something that maybe seems like a great idea, and seems like a good use of time, but actually isn't measurable, significant, incremental growth.

Julia Hartz

My greatest sense comes from the experience of performing in the movie. When I have a great experience, that becomes a perfect movie. If it makes a nickel, it's still perfect. The same is true with a movie that's a bad experience. If it makes a bejillion dollars, I will hate it till the end of time.

Julia Roberts

One of the most fun and interesting things about YC is that we are kind of a startup ourselves. We are constantly changing and evolving what we do.

Michael Seibel

Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.