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Y Combinator

Jun 10

Reddit Appoints First Black Board Director, Per Cofounder Alexis Ohanian’s Request

Reddit didn't have to look very far.
By Sissi Cao
Jan 7

Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Backs Startup That ‘Generates Startups’

There are all kinds of startups. So why not create a startup that generates startups?
By Sissi Cao
Aug 28

OpenAI Can No Longer Hide Its Alarmingly Good Robot ‘Fake News’ Writer

OpenAI's latest text-generating tool can write decent fake news. We just tried it.
By Sissi Cao
Flowers and follow-up on demand.
Apr 17

BloomThat: Flowers and Follow Up Made Easy

By Jaclyn Johnson
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 15: A McDonalds employee works in a restaurant on the morning when thousands of people took to the street to demand a minimum wage of $15 an hour on April 15, 2015 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. In what organizers are calling the biggest ever mobilization of workers in the U.S., thousands of people across the country staged protests in front of businesses that are paying some of their workers the minimum wage. Home care workers, and employees at Walmart and fast food restaurants say that the current minimum is not a living wage.
Jan 29

Y Combinator Wants to Test Giving Poor People a Basic Income

By Brady Dale
Jan 18

How About a World With Lots More Millionaires, Paul Graham?

By Brady Dale
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MARCH 10: Ellen Pao (C) leaves the California Superior Court Civic Center Courthouse during a lunch break from her trial on March 10, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao is suing her former employer, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, for $16 million alleging she was sexually harassed by male officials. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Jul 7

Votes for AMA With Ousted reddit Employee Mysteriously Disappear [UPDATED]

By Brady Dale
Sep 8

‘Mayor of the Internet’ Alexis Ohanian Backs Tim Wu’s Plans For Tech

By Jack Smith IV
Aug 12

Y Combinator Warns Investors: Sexually Harass Founders, We 'Will Not Continue to Work With You'

By Jordyn Taylor
Jul 7

Let GitHub Sort Unicorn Investors From the Real Deal

By Joseph Perla
Jun 19

10 Things I Learned from Paul Graham at Y Combinator

By Nate Kontny
Jordan Metzner started a burrito chain in Argentina. Without knowing Spanish. (CNN en Español screencap)
May 20

Argentina: Y Combinator with Hotter Girls

By Fernando Cwilich Gil
May 14

Alexis Ohanian

By The Editors
Oct 11

Booting Up: Hulu Is Close to Picking Its Second New CEO In a Year

By Jordan Valinsky
Why won't it work?! (Photo: Rob Bateman, www.nukomp.com, via Flickr)
May 3

Booting Up: Does Your Smart TV Work? Have You Tried Connecting It to the Internet?

By Kelly Faircloth
Apr 9

YC-Backed Hipset Launches YouTube Network to Help Clients Like Tyga, Soulja Boy, and Rob Zombie Make Money Off YouTube

By Nitasha Tiku
San Quentin. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Feb 25

Since There Are Incubators Everywhere Else, Why Not Put One in a California Prison?

By Patrick Clark
Dec 27

The Best of Betabeat: A 2012 Retrospective

By The Editors
Dec 21

Investors Wonder About the Future of TechStars New York

By Nitasha Tiku
Dec 10

Gift Guide: The Best Books to Buy for the Technologist in Your Life

By Kelly Faircloth
Dec 4

Booting Up: Did You Bring Enough For Everyone? Edition

By Patrick Clark
Contents: one cupcake. (Photo: Wikimedia)
Dec 3

Booting Up: Is Facebook Picking Up a New Mobile Messaging App?

By Kelly Faircloth
(Photo: Twitter)
Nov 27

Booting Up: Fake Press Releases Edition

By Jessica Roy
"Leave me alone." (Photo: Twitter)
Nov 16

Alexis Ohanian, Rap Genius and Other Y Combinator Grads Hate on Silicon Valley at NYU Panel

By Myles Tanzer
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