Today after 12+ years at Y Combinator I’ll be transitioning to a Partner Emeritus position. This role allows me to continue to do office hours with the 1000+ companies I’ve worked with in the past decade while giving me the free time to explore new adventures. It also means

lol - almost 19 years after we started - we finally got Bieber :)

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New Dalton + Michael video drop - Process vs Chaos:

When you see a YC company killing it - it feels good:

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In startups, your plan can be very very different if you are optimizing for the next $1k - $100k of revenue vs the next $1m - $100m of revenue. Most early stage companies should just worry about first but the lessons you learn about your market in this process need to be

My worst debates are on questions that can clearly be proven true or false with some basic internet research. I’m both wasting my time and making the people around me dumber.

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Who is Zhang Shengmin, China's new CMC vice chair? ✍️ @redharryng @imtienyikrislih

FWIW here's what's happening in SF post-Chesa Boudin recall, with DA Brooke Jenkins and Mayor Daniel Lurie coming into power - Crime down nearly 30% citywide and down 40% in Union Square and Financial District - Number of tents on our streets at record lows - Net gain in police

The State of California has allocated more than $24 billion to homelessness and housing programs since 2019, and none of it went to recovery housing. If someone is breaking their fentanyl addiction, and we as taxpayers are investing to house them and support their recovery, we

Often founders think they have a bad GTM motion or need a new sales team, when the reality is their product doesn’t help their customers make enough money.

Taking responsibility for helping your customers make more money is hard. It often takes caring more about their business than yours.

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I often see examples of startups who don’t understand why their customers are unwilling to spend more money on their product. I suspect they never ask themselves the question - how much money do I help my customers make? In fact they often don't understand their customers'

The amount of money your company can make is directly related to the amount of incremental revenue your customers believe you help them make. Revenue your customers believe you help them make is therefore a better KPI than your revenue because you can always figure out how to

I’ve done my best work when stressed and excited.

Feeling bad all the time is not required to do great work.

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New Dalton + Michael video just dropped. I coined the phrase "MBAification of technical founders" in this video.

In a world built for humans, humanoid robots are designed to plug right into existing infrastructure. In a recent webinar, KraneShares CIO @ahern_brendan, Senior Investment Strategist Derek Yan, CFA, and Robostore Founder Teddy Haggerty explored why they believe this simple fact

I love learning about situations where conventional wisdom is wrong.

When in doubt the algo will provide gas station fights and political rage bait. We don’t understand what you want to consume so we will undermine civilization until we figure it out.