Jared Friedman

Y Combinator

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Jared Friedman

Y Combinator

@snowmaker

founder, techno-optimist, college dropout, partner at @ycombinator.

San Francisco

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Joined April 2007

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Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
Jun 18, 2023
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.
Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
6h
YC built software that all our founders have used to send SAFEs for the last few years. Today, we're opening it up to everyone and giving it away for free.
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
8h
In 2013, @cjoneslevy created the SAFE at YC. It's since been used by YC founders to raise $15B+ and has become the standard way startups raise money. So we're launching Send a SAFE: a free tool to generate, sign, & send one in ~2 minutes, built to be used by founders (and their
Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
9h
Take a minute to watch this video; it's a cool one. This is not some AI generated video; this is the actual robot the Grip founders built, sorting real trash, at 1x speed.
Grip
@griprobotics
11h
Grip builds intelligent robots that pick the trash existing sorting machines can't. Robotic manipulation just started working. Foundation models can now grasp the deformable, entangled, never-before-seen objects that waste streams are full of, on hardware that's finally cheap
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Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
Aug 15
Hosted the first YC Intern Expo today with 1,400 college students & 52 YC companies hiring interns. Many of YC's best founders started as interns. From the people I met, pretty sure we'll get more from this crowd.
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Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
Aug 14
The size of YC's codebase, over the last 14 years.