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Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham lays out why he's voting for Kamala Harris
Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator, urged moderates to vote for Kamala Harris in an open letter…
Jordan Hart
SIMPLY PUT: Founder Mode — the secret sauce to startup success or fancy term for hustle and micromanagement?
Founder Mode is the latest trend in Silicon Valley, emphasising a hands-on approach by CEOs in thei…
Y Combinator is making its first weapons industry bet on a company that wants to be the SpaceX of missiles
Defense startup Ares Industries says it can make anti-ship cruise missiles that are 10 times cheape…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
Y Combinator founder says Sam Altman wasn't fired
"People have been claiming YC fired Sam Altman. That's not true," said the startup accelerator's fo…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
Veteran investor Paul Graham breaks down why Sam Altman left Y Combinator
Paul Graham said Altman wasn't fired from Y Combinator, a rumor that has persisted ever since he le…
Lakshmi Varanasi
Insider Today: Y Combinator's Demo Day decline
Y Combinator's Demo Day has lost some of its luster due to VCs cutting deals ahead of time. Microso…
Dan DeFrancesco
Y Combinator lays off 20% staff, scales back on late-stage investments
US-based technology startup accelerator Y Combinator is laying off 17 employees -- or 20 per cent o…
How Y Combinator-backed Seabound is using carbon-capture tech to tackle the shipping industry's problematic emissions
Shipping accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Seabound believes its tech can p…
Tasmin Lockwood
Landeed raises $8.3 million in seed funding from Bayhouse Capital, Draper Associates & more
The startup, which was founded in 2022, aims to hit the ground running with the seed funds. …
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham thinks stock market investors are missing out on the AI boom
In a recent tweet, Graham said he believes all the good AI companies to invest in are still private…
Vishal Persaud
Y Combinator CEO on leaving Palantir: 'I'm working like a dog for Peter Thiel... Who's the real chump?'
Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator, was Palantir's tenth employee, but decided to join Y Combinator…
Will Gendron
Y Combinator warns startup founders that 'things don't look good' in the economy right now and shares 8 tips to survive a downturn
The famous incubator told founders that no one can "predict how bad the economy will get" and told …
Katie Canales
I'm a generative AI startup founder who got into Y Combinator this year. But I turned them down for Neo, another smaller accelerator program. Here's why.
Wesley Tian's generative AI startup Aragon AI was accepted into both Y Combinator and Neo this spri…
Madeline Renbarger
A Y Combinator-backed startup just raised $39 million to develop new psychedelic treatments for depression
Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals is working to develop psychedelics that work faster and may be free of ha…
Yeji Jesse Lee
Y Combinator pulls back from late-stage startup investing to focus on its core accelerator program, and parts ways with 17 employees
Y Combinator decided to refocus after finding that late-stage investing was a "distraction" from it…
Madeline Renbarger
Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow called Stripe and Y Combinator the 'mob bosses' of Silicon Valley in a Twitter thread that sparked a fiery debate
Breslow's explosive Twitter thread was hotly debated among VCs and startup founders, who contend th…
Madeline Renbarger
A new cryptocurrency called worldcoin wants to scan 1 billion people's iris by 2023 to speed up digital currency adoption
Worldcoin has scanned more than 100,000 people from different countries through a device called the…
Isabelle Lee
Y Combinator was an enclave where tech founders rubbed shoulders with billionaires. Then the coronavirus hit.
In Insider Weekly, we're looking at how COVID pushed Y Combinator into a big growth spurt and what …
Matt Turner,Phil Rosen
Y Combinator's all-star alum and VC Garry Tan returns to take over the accelerator as its chief executive
Tan will take over for Geoff Ralston next year as the CEO of the startup accelerator Y Combinator, …
Madeline Renbarger,Melia Russ…
A Silicon Valley insider gave up watching TV aged 13 and says the secret to success involves completely reframing the meaning of hard work
The influential Silicon Valley seed capitalist says that hard work can be learned and that successf…