23-year-old cofounders left Amazon and Microsoft to build an AI startup. Read their Y Combinator pitch deck.

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Bluejay cofounders Rohan Vasishth and Faraz Siddiqi, with their arms crossed and standing shoulder to shoulder in grey sweaters.
Bluejay cofounders Rohan Vasishth and Faraz Siddiqi

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Paul Graham, who coined 'founder mode,' says it's possible to go 'too far' and veer into micromanaging

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Paul Graham is pictured in conversation with Charlie Rose.
Almost a year out from his viral essay, Paul Graham reflected on the difference between going "founder mode" and micromanaging.

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Silicon Valley's young founders are giving up alcohol or going San Francisco-sober to 'lock in' for 'grind mode'

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YC founders are getting younger and feeling the pressure

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Garry Tan of Y Combinator
Garry Tan of Y Combinator

Garry Tan, Courtesy of Y Combinator

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

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

Gale

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

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

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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.

Y Combinator founder says Sam Altman wasn't fired

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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

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Paul Graham Y Combinator

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

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OpenAI logo displayed on a phone screen and a laptop keyboard are seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on April 24, 2022.
OpenAI's latest product announcement is GPT-4o.

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