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Quotes and lessons on y combinator from 25 founders Charles Cormier interviewed on the Founder Wisdom, CEO Wisdom, and YC Wisdom podcasts.

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we plug into your systems and then we figure out who the target accounts are we figure out their their behaviors on our website and then we personalize help to personalize the Outreach

— Alan Zhao, Warmly · episode

startups they don't die they commit suicide and so if if you don't want to continue then that's how the syrup dies

— Alan Zhao, Warmly · episode

Basically we help construction companies, specifically general contractors, put together their on-site documentation more easily.

— Arvind Veluvali, Fresco · episode

We do that using generative AI and we've taken a lot of workflows that have been really annoying because they've traditionally only existed on the desktop and move them over to the phone

— Arvind Veluvali, Fresco · episode

Our vision is to be the first mobility, you know, Africa first Africa's first mobility unicorn. Um you know, powering about $10 billion transactions you know, by 2025.

— Ben Oladokun, Shekel Mobility · episode

We have We've built an operating system, right, that helps these dealers buy cars. So, they buy the cars, you know, they fund their wallet to 30%. We provide 70% and they buy the cars within our operating system.

— Ben Oladokun, Shekel Mobility · episode

Cod helps you write best quality code in production

— Chinmay Bharti, Cod · episode

I actually have an AI agent setup so I have five developers five AI developers coding for me

— Chinmay Bharti, Cod · episode

In a market that's defined by essentially what you know, that's more valuable than anything.

— Cole Dermott, Locus · episode

AIs are numerous but identical. Individual human taste is something built by lived experience that an AI can't replicate.

— Cole Dermott, Locus · episode

I got my start working on the human genome project. This was at Washington University in St. Louis, which is one of the two institutions leading the the public effort to do that.

— Dave Messina, Pioneer Fund · episode

Today we can sequence a genome for a 100 bucks in an afternoon.

— Dave Messina, Pioneer Fund · episode

My name is Dave David. I'm originally from the Netherlands. I'm currently founding a company in the space of the gut microbiome and how the gut microbiome influences how we respond to drugs and foods that we ingest.

— David de Gruijl, Anto · episode

Essentially, like modeling the gut microbiome is incredibly hard. So just building like kind of uh large AI models in the way that we do with text doesn't result in great u great models.

— David de Gruijl, Anto · episode

I learned to code when I was very small, like eight years old or something. I got a computer and a C++ book from my dad.

— David Kofoed Wind, Agentwork · episode

The premise of agent work is like what if instead of hiring a guy in India for example with chatbt through upwork what if you get an agent to try to solve the problem whatever it runs into problems it hires human help basically.

— David Kofoed Wind, Agentwork · episode

Elon preaches Tesla it's a great example of that and those are things that I've you know taken to my core

— Gonzalo Espinosa, Double · episode

whenever you know whether a robot delivered or food it was always very fast like 10 minutes 20 minutes

— Gonzalo Espinosa, Double · episode

Corey way means a tree in Patagonia that survives really harsh weather I like that

— Guillermo Acuña, Koywe · episode

We applied before with this idea that change with we discovered this problem that needed to be solved and this is what we're doing and we're gonna do it with or without YC and then we got invited to an interview

— Guillermo Acuña, Koywe · episode

Currently we are building a uh platform for product teams where they can do what we call guided coding.

— Ismail Pelaseyed, Superagent · episode

We use Devon internally. I think Devon produces around 70% of our own code.

— Ismail Pelaseyed, Superagent · episode

we're enabling you to invest in a company's earnings or a company's revenue or if it's Netflix for example net subscriber group things of that sort so we're creating an investment platform that lets you invest in kpis for public companies

— Ken Book, FluidInvesting.com · episode

we're actually launching a paper trading competition very soon so check back on our website in just a couple days definitely by Monday we'll have that app

— Ken Book, FluidInvesting.com · episode

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