Jessica Livingston
@jesslivingston
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Cofounder, Y Combinator; Author, Founders at Work; Host, The Social Radars podcast.
Joined February 2010
Today @cjoneslevy and I are launching our new podcast, The Social Radars! Be a fly on the wall as we get the inside story from successful startup founders. https://t.co/XC2DJyEpY3
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Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy are The Social Radars. Carolynn and Jessica have been working together to help thousands of startups at Y Combinator for almost 20 years. Come be a fly on the...
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I feel a mix of eager anticipation and slight shame that the latest episode of The Traitors in airing in 15 minutes.
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I'm thrilled to announce that YC will be visiting Europe's no. 1 university - Imperial College London - on Jan 28th Get your ticket here: https://t.co/EHSrFc0AHx (although it pains me to say that as an Oxford alum đ)
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Three YC partners are coming to Imperial to give an off-the-record talk about startups. Tom Blomfield (https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield), Pete Koomen (https://www.ycombinator.com/pe...
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I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional
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Full episode available here: Spotify: https://t.co/nGepPywjOx ApplePodcasts: https://t.co/XSKncXV20I YouTube:
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Flip the switch to Playoff Mode on FanDuel! Start your run today.
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In todayâs Social Radars we talk to the founder of what may be the most important company you havenât heard of yet: David Kirtley of Helion, which is at this moment building a fusion power plant intended to achieve net electricity production. https://t.co/ua6WaJTDDA
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Backstory on âItâs not your moneyâ I added this to the batch kickoff after a founder in the W14 batch celebrated their Demo Day success by going to Las Vegas and gambling with the money they had just raised (including my personal investment!) Needless to say, he is no longer a
i don't think the Y Combinator "pocket guide of essential advice" ever gets old... Re: âItâs not your moneyâ.... When you raise money, itâs not your personal money. The money is to be used to improve the company. For example, donât go crazy on frivolous expenses that increase
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The thing I want to know most about the Venezuelan operation is who's in the Epstein files.
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Full episode available here: Spotify: https://t.co/fXcALNFvKN ApplePodcasts:
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Carolynn and I loved talking to @snowmaker in the latest episode of the Social Radars. Whatever you're doing, it will make you happy to listen to this episode because we had so much fun making it. https://t.co/hBv4DJqr4e
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BREAKING: Whoever deleted this file and whoever instructed them to do so committed multiple felonies, likely including Pam Bondi. They are actively covering up the Epstein Files. Please Share this everywhere. Get the mainstream Media's attention please. This is blatant crime
BREAKING: Below you will see me opening up the PHOTO of Donald Trump that I downloaded at 4PM last night from the DOJ's Website (Epstein Files). This file, EFTA00000468.pdf, was removed sometime last night from the DOJ's Epstein File dump. You can look for yourself. This is
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Adding your name to a memorial already named in honor of a great man doesnât make you a great man. Quite the contrary. Putting your name on top of someone elseâs doesnât mean that people will speak of you in the same breath as the other man. Putting your name above another manâs
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Exciting new "lemonade" from Boom! Congrats!
A new product, a new customer, a new financing! Introducing Superpower: a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI datacenters, built on our supersonic technology. Superpower launches with a 1.21GW order from @CrusoeAI Backstory đ§”đ
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@boomsupersonic Episode available here: YouTube: https://t.co/XzOIzSh6uM Spotify: https://t.co/aL4ljo9slO ApplePodcasts:
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Podcast Episode · The Social Radars · 12/08/2025 · 1h 24m
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In todayâs Social Radars we talk to Blake Scholl of @boomsupersonic. Building a supersonic airliner sounds hard. It is! And as a result our conversation with Blake was a particularly gripping one.
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$6.25 billion. 25 million children. $250 each. Susan and I believe the smartest investment we can make is in children. Thatâs why weâre so excited to contribute $6.25 billion from our charitable funds to help 25 million children start building a strong financial foundation
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A Honduras-born student at @babson college -- set to be the first in her family to be a university graduate -- arranges to fly home to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. Then she is seized by ICE at the airport and two days later, in apparent violation of a judge's
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Any Lucia LĂłpez Belloza, 19, was detained by immigration agents at the Boston airport before a flight to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. She is now in Honduras.
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If you can only read one thing today, please make take the time for this extraordinary piece of writing by my cousin Caroline's extraordinary daughter Tatiana. Tatiana is a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. This piece is about what she has
âWhen you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.â Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis.
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