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How to Get Into Silicon Valley’s $600 Billion Startup School | The Circuit with Emily Chang

Y Combinator is a famous Silicon Valley startup accelerator where Airbnb, Coinbase and Reddit all got their start. This startup school has backed companies now valued at $600 billion.

Garry TanguestEmily Changhost
Aug 11, 202324mWatch on YouTube

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Released
August 11, 2023
Duration
24m
Channel
Bloomberg Originals
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Y Combinator is a famous Silicon Valley startup accelerator where Airbnb, Coinbase and Reddit all got their start. This startup school has backed companies now valued at $600 billion. Emily Chang met with Y Combinator CEO and President Garry Tan to discuss his roots as a founder who went through Y Combinator himself, to his return as the accelerator's current CEO. They discuss what it takes to be a great founder, the Silicon Valley Bank crisis, how Mr. Beast schooled Tan on his content creating, and the fate of San Francisco. -------- Like this video? Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg?sub_confirmation=1 Become a Quicktake Member for exclusive perks: http://www.youtube.com/bloomberg/join Bloomberg Originals offers bold takes for curious minds on today’s biggest topics. Hosted by experts covering stories you haven’t seen and viewpoints you haven’t heard, you’ll discover cinematic, data-led shows that investigate the intersection of business and culture. Exploring every angle of climate change, technology, finance, sports and beyond, Bloomberg Originals is business as you’ve never seen it. Subscribe for business news, but not as you've known it: exclusive interviews, fascinating profiles, data-driven analysis, and the latest in tech innovation from around the world. Visit our partner channel Bloomberg Quicktake for global news and insight in an instant.

SPEAKERS

  • Garry Tan

    guest

    CEO of Y Combinator and founder of Initialize Capital; former YC-backed founder (Posterous) and early investor in companies like Coinbase.

  • Emily Chang

    host

    Journalist and host of Bloomberg Originals’ "The Circuit with Emily Chang."

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Bloomberg Originals, featuring Garry Tan and Emily Chang, How to Get Into Silicon Valley’s $600 Billion Startup School | The Circuit with Emily Chang explores Garry Tan on YC’s selection, AI wave, and San Francisco’s future Garry Tan describes Y Combinator as a highly selective accelerator that can decide on founders in about 10 minutes, while emphasizing that those outcomes depend on the founders’ prior “10,000 hours.”

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