SpaceX just acquired Cursor for $60B
— CG (@cgtwts) June 16, 2026
> be Cursor
> 4 MIT students start a side project in 2022
> build the AI coding tool developers love
> hit a $10B valuation
> decide copilots aren’t enough
> move into models
> need massive compute to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic & Google
>… pic.twitter.com/6TCBgC6BZz
There are at least 20 YC graduate companies, all well-funded, doing well, who are individually tackling a small segment of marketing. The correct decision would be to merge them all and then race to a trillion. https://t.co/NuOQ6q5jJe
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 17, 2026
So excited to be joining YC as a General Partner! https://t.co/uptfjexc1o
— Grey Baker (@greybaker) June 16, 2026
Here is your answer: Netizen: Agentic AI: Is The Emperor Naked? https://t.co/pE0rgvSieC
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 17, 2026
We're excited to announce Christopher Golda (@golda) and Grey Baker (@greybaker) as YC's newest General Partners!
— Y Combinator (@ycombinator) June 16, 2026
Chris co-founded BackType (S08), sold it to Twitter, then built their entire ad business from zero to $1B+ in revenue.
Grey co-founded Dependabot, a developer tool…
The next phase of AI is going to be much less romantic.
— Kathryn Wu (@kathrynwu1) June 17, 2026
Everyone loved frontier models until agents entered real workflows, bills showed up, and suddenly token costs became impossible to ignore.
Most founders don't care which model tops a benchmark if it's too expensive to run…
Something I told 14 yo: Once you've prepared sufficiently for exams, switch your focus to "game management." Get enough sleep, keep calm, watch the time, check your answers to avoid dumb mistakes, etc.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) June 17, 2026
We don’t care what your age is
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) June 17, 2026
We care if you can build with craft and care
And if you can make something people want https://t.co/iCv9svn4VD
The best curveball question we ask when assessing talent is: "What did you do for fun as a kid?"
— Adam Shuaib (@adamshuaib) June 17, 2026
Great innovators describe a solitary, iconoclastic activity like running an imaginary sports league with handwritten stats sheets, inventing card games no one would ever play or…
The Columbus Way, The Neil Armstrong Way
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 17, 2026
From Unicorns to Solaras: Building Trillion-Dollar Companies That Transform Humanityhttps://t.co/2PEeMGR5By
The Columbus paradigm, and the Unicorn paradigm.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 17, 2026
They have become problems.
Needed: Neil Armstrong paradigm, the Solara paradigm.
I made the “YC for founders 35+” post as a bit of a joke and have been shocked by the response. Very strong opinions from many perspectives.
— Nicki Sanders (@nickisanders) June 17, 2026
To be clear: I know YC doesn’t have an age limit.
However, the reaction tells me a lot of people feel like startup culture is optimized… https://t.co/B7iJruZUfk
India has one of the best AI talent pools in the world, and we keep losing it overseas because our VC ecosystem still isnt anywhere close to what the Bay Area offers. ive heard its gotten to the point where even the VCs here are telling founders to just move to the Valley.…
— Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation (※,※) (@sandeepnailwal) June 17, 2026
You're cold emailing 100 investors.
— Francis Santora 🎌 (@FrancisPSantora) June 17, 2026
Most send walls of text. No response.
Instead, stand out in 3 lines:
1. Why you're exceptional (your past wins)
2. One-sentence what you do
3. Traction pic.twitter.com/RE3lADreU9
Apparently this revenue graph is from the company I was talking about here. https://t.co/mo5kApuwFw pic.twitter.com/5c8ah082sL
— Paul Graham (@paulg) June 17, 2026
More details of these stories will be in my book coming out in September. https://t.co/ZW0fxaYeMa https://t.co/gWgMQnauSH
— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) June 17, 2026
Great to be back in Nepal for the second time in a month. With Nepal’s new government led by prime minister @ShahBalen a new chapter has opened for the country and Denmark is happy to support efforts at promoting economic growth, trade and investment 🇩🇰 🇳🇵 pic.twitter.com/4Kps07vhpM
— Rasmus Abildgaard Kristensen (@DenmarkinIndia) June 17, 2026
Every AI factory starts with data.
— Michael Dell 🇺🇸 (@MichaelDell) June 16, 2026
According to IDC, Dell remains the world’s #1 external enterprise storage provider with 31.2% share and 40.8% growth.
Thank you to our customers, partners and team members around the world.#PlayNiceButWin pic.twitter.com/d0lXb0FY5r
My advice to first-time technical founders:
— Will Henry (@ItsWillHenry) June 17, 2026
1. Start with a single feature
2. Choose a market with a lot of competitors
3. Have a specific target audience
4. Build in public
5. Charge from Day 1
You'll be tempted to skip #5, but don't, it's the most important part.
axolotls can regenerate their heart. not scar tissue. functional heart tissue. they can also regenerate their brain, spinal cord, limbs, jaw, and eyes. the regenerated limb has bones, muscles, nerves, blood vessels. everything. in the correct position. with full function. no…
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) June 16, 2026
theres no competition.
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) June 11, 2026
because nobody has seen what we have seen pic.twitter.com/U7arfOLaeZ
Always in problem solver mode. You can manage a problem or you can solve the problem. If you manage a problem you become the problem. If you solve the problem, you can advance to the next problem.
— Michael Glidewell (@drtheglide) June 17, 2026
ok this is INSANE ðŸ˜
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) June 14, 2026
recently a lab technician at Cornell didn’t want to pay for parking so she walked through a cemetery to get to work.
one day she noticed bees everywhere. brought a jar of them to her boss. turns out there are 5.5 MILLION bees living underground beneath…
Focus on what you can control.
— Michael Dell 🇺🇸 (@MichaelDell) June 16, 2026
Build something. Anything.
A product. Yourself. A family. Your community. A team. Relationships.
Or help someone else build theirs.
Don’t complain. Don’t play the victim.
Ever.
What are you building?#PlayNiceButWin
I’m not only doing this for me. I’m doing this for humanity. And for protecting the only known planet with known consciousness in the whole effing universe.
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) June 17, 2026
He is correct. Change can be great and phenomenal. We will make it so. https://t.co/2SWOqU6oP6
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) June 17, 2026
My new profile picture is Top Gun: Marine Biology. pic.twitter.com/1K4Zm7pVtH
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) June 17, 2026
The next SpaceX is not in space tech.
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) June 17, 2026
The next OpenAI is not in AI.
The next Elon Musk is not someone who looks like and talks like Elon Musk.
Brilliant things are unique and hard to spot using superficial bins.
For the love of god.
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) June 17, 2026
Be brave. Be absolutely relentless.
He never entered manager mode. https://t.co/Asa2JLKjLz
— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) June 17, 2026
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