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A Clarification
3.5 min
E Pur Si Muove
4.2 min
The Merge
3.9 min
American Equity
3.7 min
The United Slate
1.1 min
Join the YC Software Team
1.1 min
Quora
1.7 min
Tech Workers' Values
1.6 min
Keep the Internet Open
3.2 min
Greg
2.7 min
What I Heard From Trump Supporters
11.5 min
2017 YC Annual Letter
17.7 min
Time to Take a Stand
3.5 min
Affordable Care
11.7 min
2016
2015
The Tech Bust of 2015
5.2 min
Airbnb and San Francisco
4.1 min
Unit Economics
3.2 min
Financial Misstatements
1.1 min
The Post-YC Slump
4.4 min
The U.S. Digital Service
2.1 min
Projects and Companies
3 min
Energy
3 min
The days are long but the decades are short
7.2 min
Bubble talk
3.1 min
Technology predictions
2 min
Machine intelligence, part 2
7.2 min
Machine intelligence, part 1
5.9 min
Startup advice, briefly
5.1 min
The Software Revolution
5.1 min
China
5.8 min
FarmLogs
1.6 min
Policy for Growth and Innovation
11.1 min
2014
A new team at reddit
1.9 min
A Question
1.5 min
Board Members
2.6 min
Why Silicon Valley Works
3.7 min
reddit
2.1 min
Applying to YC
1.7 min
Stupid Apps and Changing the World
2.6 min
Uber vs Car Ownership
2 min
Black Swan Seed Rounds
3.4 min
Net neutrality
2.3 min
The Economy
4.3 min
You and Your Research, by Richard Hamming
67.5 min
Valuations
6.1 min
Founder Depression
1.7 min
Bitcoin Price Pressure
3.3 min
Employee Equity
8.7 min
The Worst Part of YC
1.6 min
Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator
5.1 min
What I've Learned From Female Founders So Far
4.9 min
New RFS -- Breakthrough Technologies
6.9 min
The Founder Visa (again)
2.2 min
Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make
8.8 min
AI
3.6 min
The Engineer Crunch
3.9 min
Anonymity
1.7 min
Technology and wealth inequality
8.2 min
Value is created by doing
4.2 min
Super successful companies
6.6 min
2013
H5N1
3.9 min
Employee Retention
5.8 min
The Only Way to Grow Huge
1.7 min
Thoughts on Bitcoin
5.1 min
Non-technical founder? Learn to hack
3 min
The separation of advice and money
3.1 min
What to do if a bubble is starting
2.7 min
How to hire
14.5 min
Electrons and Atoms
2.6 min
How things get done
3.4 min
Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
5.3 min
What happened to innovation?
11.8 min
Premature optimization
1.4 min
Party rounds
2.4 min
Rickover
0.8 min
A founder-friendly term sheet
2.5 min
Startup Advice
7.9 min
By endurance we conquer
1.1 min
Upside risk
2 min
Software to avoid the software people
1.1 min
More interesting dinner conversations
0.5 min
Aliens
0.8 min
Successful people
0.7 min
Growth and Government
11.4 min