How to apply to YC in 2022 and start your startup (with John Coogan)

Garry Tan June 15, 2022
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Hi, I'm Garry Tan —I'm President & CEO of Y Combinator. I'm a designer, engineer, and investor in early stage startups. Previously Founder & Managing Partner of Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital fund that was earliest in Coinbase and Instacart. Before that, I was a a partner at Y Combinator. Invested in and directly worked with over 700 companies the earliest possible stage, often just an idea. I cofounded Posterous and helped build it to a world-class website used by millions. (Acquired by Twitter) I also helped build the engineering team for Palantir Technology's quant finance analysis platform, and designed the current Palantir logo and wordmark. I love building things. Forbes Midas List 2019 through 2022 🚀

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Today we're going to talk about whether you should start a startup, whether to apply to YC, and how to get in if you do want to apply. We're talking to John Coogan, co-founder of Soylent and Youtuber who went through YC himself, twice. Subscribe to John Coogan and watch my video on his channel:    • Interviewing the CEO of Y Combinator   John on Twitter:   / johncoogan   00:00 What YC did for us 00:57 Should I start a company? 7:16 Should I apply to YC? 9:48 How to get into YC I'm Garry Tan, venture capitalist and founder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and I'm a Forbes Midas List Top 100 venture capitalist in the world. We want these videos to be about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Our startups have gone on to create more than $200 billion in market value so far, and Initialized has over $3.2B in assets under management. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this! Follow me on Twitter and Instagram so you'll never miss my videos and ideas-   / garrytan​     / garrytan​  

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