“For the analysis, I used an LLM to embed the companies’ value propositions in a vector space, ran a clustering algorithm on top of the embeddings, manually analyzed the results, and used ChatGPT to edit the draft. The conclusions are […]
On March 26, 2012, Brian Armstrong posted a “hail mary” on Hacker News searching for a cofounder to join him applying to YCombinator within the next 3 days. $100 Billion of value creation later, it’s worth revising some of the […]
What I like about this is the author’s process for idea discovery—going and talking to people in the target market, then building a product that launches quickly to get real feedback. At the same time, this left me with a […]
Sam Altman, who recently stepped down as CEO of YCombinator, shares “13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier success” based on his observing “thousands of founders and [thinking] a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount […]
Often said to be the world’s leading accelerator program (alums include Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Instacart, Coinbase), YC is a pillar of the startup community. They have a “Requests for Startups” page that highlights 25 areas of innovation that they would […]
Michael Seibel from YCombinator wrote an essay discussing how to put the first thing first when starting a business. | learn more