just got my visa approved. been waiting for 5 years - - finally i get to visit SF 🤩 (@garrytan pls meet me)

As long as all newly founded startups prefer your product, don't worry about competitors who can convince larger customers. You'll own all future cohorts of companies, and that's more than enough. Plus in practice you'll eventually convert the old cohorts too, if you bother to.

If you want to know whether you have a good product, it's a lot easier to make it a little harder for the user to use it, and see if they use it anyway. - @mwseibel

I was talking recently to a startup using AI to take over a certain kind of work. Apparently investors are skeptical that AI could do it. I told them they should point out that most of this work already seems as if it's done by AI.

Brad approved 😎

Every founder begins with no idea how they’re going to make their startup work. The difference is some keep going anyway.

just made our product deck with @getalai and wow -- as someone with zero design background, this was so easy. Finished the whole thing in ~ 2hrs what would have otherwise taken ~8hrs on canva or figma (plus my bad design). i liked how it generated so many clean design options

We have users even before product is not ready for active use. Someone said "good problems to have". I guess it is.

Founders: Strong sales narratives quantify pain in dollars and cents. 'This is annoying' won't drive action. 'This costs you $50k per month' will get attention.

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” — Elon Musk

If YC founders get treated poorly imagine how it is for everyone else…….

Most of the legacy non-softwate industries don’t even know AI is now smart enough to automate workflows that used to need real human judgment. When I asked why their systems still look like they’re from the 2000s, they said it’s because traditional SaaS never had the

Sometimes the ideas that are bad are insights into why there’s a better thing to do. Bad ideas mean you got surprised and probably surprised by something not immediately obvious. That itself is worth understanding because likely there’s a problem still worth solving beneath.

Your dream has to be so big that it gives you an opportunity by God to show you how powerful he is

@saranormous @NoPriorsPod Listen here:

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the

Funding is cheap and clout chasing is even cheaper. All that matters is what you can build and if you can get it in the hands of the people who need it. Make something people want. That’s it.

just read this in an investor update "older engineers who graduated from college pre-GPT are actually the best-suited for our purposes. They have fundamental programming ability that's lost amongst most of the current-gen." the AI-induced thinking/skills decay has begun wild

In 2008 I got into YC and immediately found my people When you have nothing and are running from big bureaucracies, finding a scene that finally matches how you want to live feels like oxygen.