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Last week we shared some awesome news: David Lieb, the creator of Bump (part of the summer 2009 batch!) and Google Photos, has joined YC as a Group Partner. I sat down with David to hear more about his incredible story so far.

Today Google Photos has more than a billion users. Most of those users probably don’t know that Google Photos' story begins at a startup called Bump.

We're excited to announce we have three new Visiting Group Partners joining us for the S24 YC batch.

YC will be visiting London and three universities in the UK – Cambridge, Imperial, and Oxford. If you’re interested in starting a startup, or are in the early stages of building one, we hope to see you there.

Most people know YC for funding software companies. But some of our most successful companies are the ones doing incredible things in the real world — the hard tech companies.

These 25 YC companies have built AI models that do things that just a couple of years ago would have been impossible.

It’s easy to analyze your way out of taking the first step. It’s something we see a lot, particularly when founders try to choose what to build based on what they think VCs will like.

"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.

Earlier today Michael shared an update with the YC community, outlining a shift to his role within YC moving forward.

Many of the greatest companies in YC’s history pivoted along the way. Here's the story of how Clipboard Health founder Wei Deng found an idea worth over $1B.

People are going to have feedback about your startup idea — how do you make sense of it all?

We’re planning to do a special one-off round of early interviews for the next YC batch. If you want to do the next batch of YC, you should consider applying now by Feb 21 so you can get a faster decision (and earlier funding).

In this episode of Dalton & Michael we’ll discuss the downsides of trying to “innovate” on certain things and why that can make it LESS likely a company succeeds.

In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we’ll explain why the "Bootstrap or raise Venture Capital?" debate is a much simpler one than many make it out to be.

There aren’t a ton of people in the world who can say they founded a billion dollar company. There are far fewer that can say they did it twice. YC Group Partner Tom Blomfield is one of those few — this is his backstory.

Every software company needs a technical co-founder. But what kind of co-founder does the technical founder need?