Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
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founder, techno-optimist, college dropout, partner at @ycombinator.
San Francisco
Joined April 2007
Yesterday we hosted 400 top university students at the YC Summer Conference - a fun day of talks about startups. Talking to the students afterwards, I found myself giving a lot of the same advice. So in case it's useful to others, here is my startup advice for students.
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I suspect we're seeing a divergence between skills that can be benchmarked and reinforcement learned and ones that can't.
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ChatGPT is now better at math than almost all humans, an incredible accomplishment. So it's interesting that it's still worse at writing cold emails than the average founder.
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If you're interested in AI Coding Agents and want to try building one yourself, this hackathon @ YC is for you.
We're hosting a hackathon @ycombinator office with @morphllm @samedotdev to build the next Lovable!.
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RT @harjtaggar: The @gigaml founders are in the elite founder tier for both IQ and how hardcore their work ethic is. At their current growt….
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RT @ethanmgibbs: if you’re afraid to launch, just do it anyway. we squeezed ours in on an hours notice and I don’t regret it. the YC networ….
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This is what the @orangesliceai founders woke up to after launching yesterday.
I generally wouldn't post about stuff like this but YC reach is genuinely insane. we had to switch to our personal calendars because we hit calendar rate limits on our google business accounts
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This is a good way to think of AI agent startup ideas.
The biggest AI Agent opportunities are going to be in categories of work where there could be a 10X or 100X increase in demand if the cost of executing certain tasks went down dramatically. The key is to find categories of work where there’s a significant amount of.
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Lawyers were the original prompt engineers. They've been programming in English long before the rest of us.
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I'll be there!.
Smart Glasses Hackathon. July 12-13. At @ycombinator in SF. 100 pairs of smart glasses. 100 cracked devs. 48 hours at YC. Prizes are smart glasses. Only smart glasses. 1/3 of hackers will win free smart glasses. What will you build?. Sign up below.
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Most of the sidecar events for AI Startup School were networking parties. Corgi organized an all-night hackathon for the most hardcore people.
300 hackers pulled an all-nighter with us before Day 2 of YC Startup School. That's Corgi energy right there.
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RT @garrytan: Alexandr Wang has come a long way, from presenting Scale at Demo Day to being an inspiration to the next generation of founde….
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RT @karpathy: Pleasure to come by the YC AI Startup School today! I'm told the recordings will be up "in the coming weeks", I'll link to it….
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YC is hosting our first-ever AI startup school in San Francisco on June 16 and 17th. AI Startup School will gather 2,500 of the top CS undergrads, masters, and PhD candidates in AI to hear from th...
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RT @paultoo: Not many people know this, but OpenAI was actually started at YC in 2015, and was initially known as "YC Research". We were c….
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Thought provoking points from @karpathy at AI Startup School today. Made me see LLMs in a whole new light.
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What's funny is that if you had asked me about Supabase's growth in December 2024 I would have told you it was excellent.
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RT @harjtaggar: Prompting AI agents to consistently do what you want is becoming the most important skill for founders to learn and build t….
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