For decades, Silicon Valley has valorized the college dropout. Founders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg left school early to build companies and they became billionaires. That ethos ...

A disclaimer about this newsletter’s title: I didn’t quite watch 243 one-minute startup pitches myself during Y Combinator’s Demo Day last week. I think I probably set a personal record for pitch ...

Greptile, a fast‑growing AI startup founded by Georgia Tech students, has rapidly scaled from a CREATE‑X pivot to a Y ...

ChatGPT is still more of a one-stop web search than a business mentor for now. Compared to responses from Y Combinator’s free Startup School, ChatGPT’s responses were vague lists that complemented ...

Investing in Y Combinator startups can lead to significant returns to investors. “If you look at the data: 6% of YC companies become unicorns, and of that 6% a quarter become decacorns,” Kulveer ...

Nothing churns the waters in Silicon Valley like an edgy blog post. An essay by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham is sparking debate about managerial philosophies in tech this week. The piece ...