Showing posts with label Y Combinator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Y Combinator. Show all posts

Monday, April 20, 2026

Paul Graham's Ramen Noodle University

Y Combinator was a highly innovative launch when it showed up, and it is still today a gold standard in innovation. But the Y Combinator model only worked because Amazon Web Services had happened. Before that startups had to raise millions and buy servers. 5K? 10K? Forget it.

Also, you do all you do. You achieve Product-Market-Fit. And you have supposedly attained nirvana!

That is flawed thinking.

VCs take pride in being anti-marketing. Legend has it A16Z funded companies know that Marc Andreessen will personnally show up with a sldgehammer if they are found doing any marketing.

That is coder hubris, and marketing illiteracy. You can NOT find product-market fit without marketing. Ad spend is a tiny fraction of what marketing is. Marketing is mostlhy listening. Good marketing is sophisticated listening. Great marketing is how you find adjacent spaces. And super marketing is how you invest new, vertical adjacent spaces.

AWS might have cut costs. But AI means now you can 10X or 100X the code, 10X or 100X the marketing, you can start with 100X or 1000X ambition. And the Ramen Noodle framework breaks. Completely.

In my book Marketing Escape Velocity I put out the thesis that ANY tech startup that has achieved product-market fit can hope to achieve unicorn status if it is willing to respect marketing. Marketing is how you become aware of adjacent spaces. And movig into adjacent spaces might mean merging with other tech startups that might also have achieved product--market fit.

The Columbus way does not take you to the moon. Today, with all the tools available, we are in moon territory in every direction. Really big things have become possible.

In fact, the size of the problem/challenge is the key metric. The size of the ambition.

My argument is, the Solara vision IS the starting point. Yes, you need product, and product market fit, but you need at least 10 of them just to unicorn status, and you might have personally been responsible for only one of the 10.

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The most famous company to come out of Y Combinator never did the Y Combinator thing. OpenAI. OpenAI needed to launch big, and raise big, so big that it had to skip VCs and go straight to Microsoft.

Y Combinator is not the correct vehicle for Solaras. My books are.

A Solara vision is about reinventing a new industry, or imagining a new one. That requires tremendous domain expertise, immense imagination and courage, and is everything to do with the spec, and nothing to do with vibe coding. Vibe coding comes later, and might be only a portion of the product. Code is not the only thing. Spec is a thing. Marketing is a fundamental thing. Ambition is a thing. Vision is a thing. Ideas are a thing. As is execution.

But it is not either/or. I think of Y Combinator as primary school. It does take you to product market fit. And you do raise initial money.

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Farza

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

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YC Is the New IBM — And That’s the Problem

Y Combinator is one of the most iconic institutions in the startup world. It has funded over 4,000 startups, including legendary names like Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox. It redefined what early-stage acceleration could mean. It made demo day a cultural event. It scaled.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Y Combinator never grew up. Yes, it scaled like a factory—like you used to make five ceramic cups and now you produce 50. But scale isn’t evolution. And YC hasn’t evolved for the era we’re in. It was designed for 2005, and it’s still running the same playbook in 2025.

Can the next OpenAI be born inside YC? The answer is clear: No. And here's why that matters.


The Myth of Scalability as Innovation

Y Combinator perfected the pipeline of churning out “fundable” startups, often with minimal innovation risk. You don’t go to YC to build a moonshot—you go to YC to get a bridge round and validation. The model optimizes for safe bets, not world-changing bets.

That’s why the biggest tech bets of the last decade didn’t come from YC:

  • OpenAI? Born out of an elite coalition of thinkers and capitalists, not a YC batch.

  • NVIDIA’s AI bet? Vision from within a hardware company with deep technical roots.

  • DeepMind? U.K.-based and far more academically anchored than YC-style hustle.

  • SpaceX? Elon didn't start it with $125k and a pitch deck.

YC didn’t—and perhaps couldn’t—incubate these.


The Platform Problem: YC Is Craigslist

YC today is like Craigslist. Once, it was everything—jobs, housing, gigs. But then a thousand verticals unbundled it: Airbnb took housing, LinkedIn took jobs, Uber took rides, and so on.

YC is waiting to be unbundled in the same way.

It is a generalist factory in a world now defined by the intersections of specialized, emerging technologies—AI + biotech, crypto + supply chain, robotics + mental health. These aren’t demo-day darlings. These are decade-long labs. These are fund-and-build platforms. They require long-term, infrastructure-level thinking.


The Old Playbook Can’t Win New Games

YC was built for Web 2.0. It flourished when minimal viable products and agile iterations could quickly lead to market traction. But the new wave of innovation doesn’t move in 3-month cycles. We’re entering a world of:

  • Pre-trained models that cost tens of millions

  • Deep tech that requires regulation-savvy founders

  • Climate tech with long feedback loops

  • Decentralized protocols with complex incentive engineering

What these ventures need is not YC’s playbook. They need patient capital, deep integration with research institutions, infrastructure support, cross-disciplinary expertise, and a new breed of founder networks.


YC Is IBM. Where’s the Next Apple?

In many ways, YC is IBM now—respected, still powerful, but stagnant. You know what that makes the opportunity? We need 100 new post-YCs. Each one laser-focused on a vertical. Each one optimized for depth, not breadth. Just like Airbnb pulled one vertical out of Craigslist and ran with it, the accelerators of the next decade will do the same with YC.

We’ll see:

  • An OpenAI-style research-to-commercialization lab for AGI

  • A biotech founder accelerator with embedded labs and FDA navigation

  • A climate moonshot studio building infrastructure, not MVPs

  • A sovereign-technology accelerator for deep geopolitical alignment

Each of these would make YC look like a hobby club for hustlers with slide decks.


Point Be Noted

Let’s not confuse ubiquity with relevance. YC’s continued dominance in the startup discourse is a legacy effect. Its true limitations are masked by volume. But volume is not vision. And in the AI era, in the climate era, in the post-scarcity, post-crypto, post-Web2 world, we need vision.

The most important companies of the next 20 years won’t come out of YC.

They will be born elsewhere—on new platforms, with new rules, under new accelerators that know how to build for complexity, capital intensity, and global impact.

YC lit the flame.

But it's time for a new fire.

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Y Combinator (YC) holds a 7% equity stake in each of its ~5,000 portfolio companies via its standard deal (ycombinator.com).

Industry estimates put the combined valuation of YC-backed startups at approximately:

Using those ranges:

  • At $600 billion total, YC’s 7% stake is worth:

    0.07×$600billion=$42billion0.07 \times \$600\,\text{billion} = \$42\,\text{billion}
  • At an upper estimate of $900 billion, YC’s stake would be:

    0.07×$900billion=$63billion0.07 \times \$900\,\text{billion} = \$63\,\text{billion}

📊 Summary

Assumed Portfolio Valuation YC’s Stake (7%) Estimated Worth
$600B 7% $42 billion
$900B 7% $63 billion

So, YC’s 7% equity across its ~5,000 companies is likely worth between $42 billion and $63 billion, depending on how you calculate “total portfolio value.”


Opinion: First Lady Melania and Pope Leo are right — it’s “unum” time Unum doesn’t erase conflict or pretend we all agree. It’s not utopia. It’s the hard, daily work of choosing coexistence over chaos ..... a time when America — and the world — feels dangerously divided. ....... Unum means Jewish and Muslim Americans grieving side-by-side. It means a First Lady who grew up Catholic in Slovenia invoking a motto that speaks across American synagogues, mosques and churches alike. It means a Pope who spent years in Latin America calling for peace — not as an abstract dream, but as an urgent task. .......... In moments like these, we face two temptations. One is despair: to give up, to believe the divisions are too deep. The other is rage: to blame, punish and retreat into our tribes. ......... Pope Leo XIV said it plainly: “Be bridgebuilders, peace seekers, and companions on the journey.” That’s not just a prayer. It’s a plan. ......... Because in a world driven by algorithms that divide and outrage that sells, choosing Unum is radical. It means staying at the table when you’d rather storm out. It means believing that pluralism — people of different faiths, races, beliefs and stories — can still build a shared life. ......... belonging isn’t partisan. It’s American. It always has been.

Monday, May 26, 2025

Software Ate the World. Now AI Is Eating Software.

 

Software Ate the World. Now AI Is Eating Software.

In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously declared that “software is eating the world.” And he was right. Over the next decade, nearly every industry was digitized, disrupted, or demolished by software. From how we shop to how we bank, from how we communicate to how we date, software became the invisible infrastructure of modern life. Every company became, in part, a software company.

But something new is happening now.

AI is eating software.

The New Eater Emerges

Artificial Intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), generative AI, and autonomous agents, are transforming how software is built, deployed, and even conceptualized. AI isn’t just another software tool—it’s a new layer that sits above software development itself.

Where once humans wrote code, now AI can generate it. Where once we had to meticulously design workflows, AI can infer and optimize them in real-time. AI doesn’t just use software—it writes, fixes, tests, and even replaces it.

From Apps to Agents

Apps used to be the endpoint of software innovation. You needed a team of developers to build a new productivity app, or a customer support system, or a recommendation engine. Now, an LLM can spin up an AI agent that handles all of that, learning as it goes.

Instead of building a CRM, businesses are deploying AI agents that are the CRM—automatically conversing with clients, managing data, summarizing interactions, and improving with every customer touchpoint.

We’re moving from a world of static software products to dynamic, self-improving, conversational systems.

Zero UI, Zero Code, Infinite Potential

AI is beginning to erode the traditional interfaces of software. Why click buttons and navigate menus when you can just say what you want?

Want a new dashboard? Tell your AI agent.

Need an email campaign launched, a spreadsheet analyzed, a bug fixed? Just describe the problem in plain English.

In this world, the real power isn’t in knowing how to code—it’s in knowing how to communicate. Prompting is the new programming. And anyone can prompt.

Implications: The Developer's Role Evolves

Developers are not becoming obsolete—they are becoming conductors rather than technicians. AI handles the repetitive, boilerplate code. Developers steer, architect, and integrate. More focus shifts to system design, governance, ethics, and human-AI collaboration.

Meanwhile, millions who were previously excluded from software creation now have tools to build, automate, and create at the speed of thought.

Beyond Software: Eating the World, Again

If software ate the world by digitizing it, AI is now reimagining it. AI is poised to redefine what’s possible in medicine, education, law, entertainment, science, and even governance.

It’s not just eating software—it’s reshaping intelligence itself.


Conclusion:

Software once transformed industries. Now AI is transforming software.

We’re not witnessing an incremental shift—we’re witnessing a recursive one: intelligence building intelligence, software creating software, and ideas becoming products without the friction of traditional development.

It’s not the end of software.

It’s the beginning of something much bigger.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Paul Graham’s Timeless Advice for Tech Startups: A Masterclass in Building the Future

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Paul Graham’s Timeless Advice for Tech Startups: A Masterclass in Building the Future

When it comes to tech startups, few voices are as respected — and reread — as Paul Graham’s. As a cofounder of Y Combinator and author of dozens of seminal essays, Graham has shaped how generations of founders think about startups. His advice is practical, deceptively simple, and deeply wise.

Here’s a distilled guide to Paul Graham’s best advice for building a successful tech startup:


1. Start With a Real Problem

"The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they’re something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing."

Don't chase trends. Find a real problem — ideally one you personally feel — and solve it. The best ideas come from founders solving problems they deeply understand, not from brainstorming sessions or market research alone.

2. Build Something People Want

"Make something people want."

This is the core of everything. A startup succeeds by creating real value for users. If users truly love what you’ve built, everything else — growth, revenue, buzz — follows. If they don’t, no clever marketing or fundraising will save you.

3. Start Small, Grow Fast

"It’s better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy."

Start with a small group of users — even 10 or 100 — and obsess over making them love you. Dominating a small niche is the seed from which larger success grows.

4. Launch Early

"If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

Don't over-perfect in secret. Get something out quickly, even if it's basic. Real feedback from real users is infinitely more valuable than speculation.

5. Do Things That Don’t Scale

"A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. Actually, startups take off because the founders make them take off."

Hand-hold users. Recruit them one by one. Deliver an exceptional experience manually if needed. Early scrappiness lays the foundation for later automation and scaling.

6. Be Relentlessly Resourceful

"What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. Good people can fix bad ideas, but good ideas can’t save bad founders."

Founders succeed through resourcefulness, determination, and adaptability. Being able to figure things out and push through walls is more important than initial brilliance.

7. Find a Great Cofounder

"It's like getting married. Choose carefully."

Solo founders have a harder time. A great cofounder complements your skills, shares your vision, and sticks through hard times. The chemistry between cofounders often determines a startup’s fate.

8. Stay Focused

"Startups rarely die because of competition. They die because they get distracted."

Most startup death comes from losing focus: chasing too many ideas, pivoting aimlessly, or burning out. Ruthless prioritization is key.

9. Understand the Importance of Growth

"Startup = growth."

What defines a startup is not the type of product or the age of the company but the pursuit of rapid, exponential growth. Constantly measure and drive toward sustainable growth metrics.

10. Fundraising Is a Means, Not an End

"Raising money is not success."

Yes, venture capital can help. But building something users love is the real measure of success. Chasing investors instead of customers leads to hollow startups.

11. Default Alive or Default Dead?

"Are you on track to reach profitability before you run out of money?"

Always know whether you are on a trajectory to survive without new funding. Many startups die simply because they run out of money without clear paths to profitability.

12. Beware of Bad Advice and Conventional Wisdom

"Large organizations are very good at suppressing new ideas."

Startups thrive by questioning assumptions, moving fast, and staying unconventional. Herd mentality kills creativity.

13. Persistence Wins

"It's not about having an idea. It's about making it happen."

Many startups succeed simply because the founders refused to quit. Persistence through the “trough of sorrow” — the tough times when growth stagnates — is critical.


Final Thoughts

Paul Graham’s startup wisdom boils down to a few profound principles:

  • Solve real problems.

  • Start small and focus on delighting users.

  • Move fast and stay scrappy.

  • Stay alive at all costs.

Building a startup is a rollercoaster of uncertainty, excitement, and hard work. But armed with Graham’s timeless advice, founders can tilt the odds a little more in their favor — and maybe even change the world.


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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

12: Y Combinator

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28: Y Combinator

A Tech Incubator for Today

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When the internet became mainstream, it was a revolutionary time. No one alive had experienced anything like it before. Business and innovation seemed to move at the speed of imagination. Much has happened in the past 30 years, but all of it is merely a prologue. The real breakthroughs are happening now and will continue in the near future.

Today, we see nearly ten "internet-sized" technologies advancing in parallel, reaching new heights year after year. Each is remarkable on its own, but what happens when these technologies intersect is almost impossible to predict. It's difficult to foresee which companies or industries will dominate even a decade from now, let alone further into the future.

There has never been a more thrilling time to be a tech entrepreneur than today.

Now is the time to be bold. Entrepreneurs willing to tackle the biggest problems and boldest challenges will go the farthest. The tools available today were unimaginable just a few years ago, creating unprecedented opportunities for innovation. This is the age of boundless potential.

When Y Combinator launched, Silicon Valley was the ideal location. When TechStars emerged, it made sense to establish it in multiple cities across the United States. But today, neither model would suffice. A tech incubator launched in this era must be instantly and inherently global.

This shift doesn’t negate the importance of geography. Meeting in person still holds unique value, and perhaps always will. However, the global model embraces all geographies. It doesn’t diminish the importance of talent but rather recognizes that talent is everywhere. It doesn’t undermine the value of capital but highlights how capital is rapidly forming worldwide. Those who fail to adapt will be left behind.

The world is moving rapidly toward an *Age of Abundance,* a vision prophesied in scriptures thousands of years ago. Tech entrepreneurship plays a leading role in this transformation. At its core, tech entrepreneurship is service on a massive scale delivered with extraordinary efficiency.

If I were selecting tech entrepreneurs to fund, I’d start with those daring enough to tackle the most complex, pressing problems. The days of creating a simple photo-sharing app and earning billions are over. Now is the time to confront the big challenges head-on.

A tech incubator founded today must prioritize entrepreneurs who aim to solve these "big, bad problems." It should offer them world-class support systems to turn their visions into reality. The opportunity to make a difference is everywhere—and the boldest will seize it.



आज के लिए एक तकनीकी इनक्यूबेटर



जब इंटरनेट मुख्यधारा में आया, तो वह एक क्रांतिकारी समय था। उस समय जीवित किसी ने भी ऐसा कुछ पहले कभी नहीं देखा था। व्यवसाय और नवाचार कल्पना की गति से आगे बढ़ते प्रतीत हो रहे थे। पिछले 30 वर्षों में बहुत कुछ हुआ है, लेकिन यह सब सिर्फ प्रस्तावना भर है। असली क्रांति अब हो रही है और निकट भविष्य में होगी।

आज, लगभग दस "इंटरनेट-सदृश" प्रौद्योगिकियाँ समानांतर रूप से प्रगति कर रही हैं और हर साल नई ऊंचाइयों पर पहुंच रही हैं। प्रत्येक अपने आप में अद्वितीय है, लेकिन जब ये प्रौद्योगिकियाँ आपस में जुड़ती हैं, तो जो होता है, उसकी कल्पना करना लगभग असंभव है। यह अनुमान लगाना कठिन है कि आने वाले दस वर्षों में कौन सी कंपनियाँ या उद्योग प्रमुख होंगे, और उससे भी आगे का अनुमान तो और भी मुश्किल है।

आज से बेहतर समय तकनीकी उद्यमी बनने के लिए कभी नहीं था।

अब वह समय है जब हमें साहसी बनना होगा। जो उद्यमी सबसे बड़ी समस्याओं और सबसे चुनौतीपूर्ण मुद्दों को हल करने का प्रयास करेंगे, वे सबसे आगे जाएंगे। आज उपलब्ध उपकरण कुछ साल पहले तक अकल्पनीय थे, जो नवाचार के लिए अभूतपूर्व अवसर प्रदान कर रहे हैं। यह असीम संभावनाओं का युग है।

जब वाई कॉम्बिनेटर लॉन्च हुआ, तो सिलिकॉन वैली इसके लिए आदर्श स्थान था। जब टेकस्टार्स शुरू हुआ, तो इसे अमेरिका के कई शहरों में फैलाना सही लगा। लेकिन आज, यह मॉडल पर्याप्त नहीं होगा। इस युग में लॉन्च किया गया एक तकनीकी इनक्यूबेटर तुरंत और स्वाभाविक रूप से वैश्विक होना चाहिए।

यह बदलाव भौगोलिकता के महत्व को कम नहीं करता। व्यक्तिगत रूप से मिलना आज भी अनूठा मूल्य रखता है और शायद हमेशा रखेगा। लेकिन वैश्विक मॉडल सभी क्षेत्रों को समाहित करता है। यह प्रतिभा के महत्व को कम नहीं करता, बल्कि यह मान्यता देता है कि प्रतिभा हर जगह है। यह पूंजी के मूल्य को कम नहीं करता, बल्कि दिखाता है कि पूंजी दुनिया भर में तेजी से विकसित हो रही है। जो इस बदलाव को नहीं अपनाएंगे, वे पीछे रह जाएंगे।

दुनिया तेजी से *प्रचुरता के युग* की ओर बढ़ रही है, जिसकी भविष्यवाणी हजारों साल पहले शास्त्रों में की गई थी। इस परिवर्तन में तकनीकी उद्यमिता की प्रमुख भूमिका है। अपने मूल में, तकनीकी उद्यमिता बड़े पैमाने पर सेवा है, जो अद्वितीय दक्षता के साथ प्रदान की जाती है।

यदि मुझे तकनीकी उद्यमियों को वित्तपोषित करने के लिए चुनना हो, तो मैं उन लोगों को प्राथमिकता दूंगा जो सबसे जटिल और महत्वपूर्ण समस्याओं को हल करने का साहस रखते हैं। वह समय गया जब एक साधारण फोटो-शेयरिंग ऐप बनाकर अरबों कमा लिए जाते थे। अब समय है कि बड़ी चुनौतियों का सामना किया जाए।

आज शुरू किया गया एक तकनीकी इनक्यूबेटर उन उद्यमियों को प्राथमिकता देगा जो इन "बड़ी, कठिन समस्याओं" को हल करना चाहते हैं। उन्हें विश्व-स्तरीय समर्थन प्रणालियाँ प्रदान की जाएंगी ताकि वे अपने दृष्टिकोण को वास्तविकता में बदल सकें। हर जगह अंतर लाने की संभावना है—और इसे सबसे साहसी लोग ही भुनाएंगे।