02-11-15
the y combinator chronicles

The Y Combinator Series – Front Page

p.promo-descript { font-size: 16px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 22px; color: #000; } When startup incubator Y Combinator started in 2005, founder Paul Graham was a little-known entrepreneur advocating strange notions about how to grow a startup. In retrospect, those weird ideas proved revolutionary and YC currently has a network of some 700 portfolio companies with a collective valuation of $30 billion.

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