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This YC-backed startup wants to speed up US visa applications with AI. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $2.7 million.

Fri, 05/30/2025 - 08:58

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Gale co-founders Rishabh Sambare, Rahul Gudise and Haokun Qin. — Gale cofounders Rishabh Sambare, Rahul Gudise, and Haokun Qin.
Gale

Startups, Tech, pitchdeck, Startup, VC, y-combinator, seed-funding

Sam Altman thanks Elon Musk for helping to initially bankroll OpenAI — and says now is a great time for tech founders

Mon, 11/11/2024 - 13:46

Sam Altman giving a presentation. — Sam Altman said he was "very grateful" to Elon Musk for cutting OpenAI an early check.
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Tech, AI, sam-altman, OpenAI, y-combinator, founders, elon-musk

Y Combinator is making its first weapons industry bet on a company that wants to be the SpaceX of missiles

Mon, 08/26/2024 - 00:20

US-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile getting launched during a live fire exercise at the Chiupeng missile base in Pingtung county, southern Taiwan. — "In a war with Taiwan, we would fire thousands of anti-ship missiles a week, and our stockpiles would run out in days.

Military & Defense, Tech, insider-news, y-combinator, missiles, taiwan-strait, ukraine-war

Y Combinator founder says Sam Altman wasn't fired

Fri, 05/31/2024 - 02:02

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman served as president of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, from 2014 to 2019.
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Investor Paul Graham explains why it's better to take a job at a startup over a big company — even if it ends up failing

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 12:08

Paul Graham Y Combinator — Joe Corrigan/Getty Images

Careers, Tech, paul-graham, Startups, Jobs, career-path, y-combinator

The history of OpenAI, from the early days with Elon Musk to the ChatGPT maker being put on blast by Scarlett Johansson

Wed, 05/22/2024 - 10:32

OpenAI's latest product announcement is GPT-4o.

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Tech, AI, Features, elon-musk, y-combinator, classic-format, business-visual-features

The race for ever-cooler workplaces is leaving employees the winners

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 13:02

In a production studio complete with professional cameras and lighting fixtures, Y Combinator partners Diana Hu, Harj Taggar, Garry Tan, and Jared Friedman record an episode of the Lightcone podcast. — Y Combinator's new San Francisco campus features a production studio.
Y Combinator

Careers, Careers, work-from-home, Coworking, novel-coworking, google, y-combinator

Reddit's co-founder is bickering with investors on the company's big IPO day

Thu, 03/21/2024 - 18:12

Reddit Alexis Ohanian — Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian
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Tech, Startups, Startups, Reddit, IPO, garry-tan, y-combinator

Sam Altman reportedly returned to OpenAI with the help of his tech exec friends, interim CEO Emmett Shear and Airbnb's Brian Chesky

Sun, 12/24/2023 - 13:42

Airbnb's Brian Chesky, former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. — Silicon Valley tech execs came together to reinstate Altman as CEO at OpenAI.
Kimberly White/Horacio Villalobos/Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images

Tech, sam-altman, OpenAI, emmett-shear, brian-chesky, AirBnB, y-combinator

Sam Altman enters his power era

Sat, 11/25/2023 - 04:57

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — The reinstatement of Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO demonstrated the immense level of power he wields.
Arantza Pena Popo/Business Insider

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