Many users reacted positively to Paul Graham sharing the 2010 YC interview by highlighting the accelerator's enormous growth in scale and funding since then, while a few criticized early demo days or warned about scaling risks.
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@paulg 🚀 Incredible milestone. Looking back, 208 funded startups in 2010 was a huge number and a sign of how powerful the accelerator model could become. Those early batches helped lay the foundation for a new generation of entrepreneurs. 🔥👏
@paulg mình thấy yc lúc đó scale nhanh nhưng rủi ro cũng tăng theo. All in vào batch lớn dễ để một đợt suy thoái quét sạch nhiều công ty
@paulg Demo days rewarded polished slides over shipped code. The founders who won later ignored most of the feedback they got that night.
@paulg 208 startups felt enormous back then. now YC does that in one batch almost. Insane how fast it scaled.
@paulg 🚀 Incredible milestone. Looking back, 208 funded startups in 2010 was a huge number and a sign of how powerful the accelerator model could become. Those early batches helped lay the foundation for a new generation of entrepreneurs. 🔥👏
@paulg mình thấy yc lúc đó scale nhanh nhưng rủi ro cũng tăng theo. All in vào batch lớn dễ để một đợt suy thoái quét sạch nhiều công ty
@paulg Demo days rewarded polished slides over shipped code. The founders who won later ignored most of the feedback they got that night.
@paulg 208 startups felt enormous back then. now YC does that in one batch almost. Insane how fast it scaled.
@paulg That was a really exciting time for startups and Y Combinator
@paulg Very cool. Congrats!
It's true! I thought it was nuts to launch 36 companies in one day. Mostly cause I couldn't write about that many on my blog. When I started writing about Silicon Valley tech it was a good week to have two or three startups to talk about. Watch what you wish for! Now I have 9,000 AI companies on my lists: https://x.com/scobleizer/lists And I certainly can't keep up anymore, although I do try.
Robert Scoble interviews me outside YC after the summer 2010 Demo Day. By that point we'd funded what seemed the enormous number of 208 startups, including 36 in that batch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU&t=12s
@Scobleizer Even in those days people were trying to claim that YC had jumped the shark because the batch size was now too big.
@paulg Funny, today I passed 9,000 AI companies on my lists at https://x.com/scobleizer/lists A good chunk of them are YC backed.
@paulg I remember that thinking that 36 was such a huge number.
Many users reacted positively to Paul Graham sharing the 2010 YC interview by highlighting the accelerator's enormous growth in scale and funding since then, while a few criticized early demo days or warned about scaling risks.
Based on 15 visible X reactions from 29 accounts; directional sample.
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@paulg Very cool. Congrats!
It's true! I thought it was nuts to launch 36 companies in one day. Mostly cause I couldn't write about that many on my blog. When I started writing about Silicon Valley tech it was a good week to have two or three startups to talk about. Watch what you wish for! Now I have 9,000 AI companies on my lists: https://x.com/scobleizer/lists And I certainly can't keep up anymore, although I do try.
Robert Scoble interviews me outside YC after the summer 2010 Demo Day. By that point we'd funded what seemed the enormous number of 208 startups, including 36 in that batch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU&t=12s
@Scobleizer Even in those days people were trying to claim that YC had jumped the shark because the batch size was now too big.
@paulg Funny, today I passed 9,000 AI companies on my lists at https://x.com/scobleizer/lists A good chunk of them are YC backed.