Jessica Livingston

Cofounder, Y Combinator; Author, Founders at Work; Host, The Social Radars podcast.

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

Today @cjoneslevy and I are launching our new podcast, The Social Radars! Be a fly on the wall as we get the inside story from successful startup founders.
https://t.co/XC2DJyEpY3

[Chris Mowrey @chrisdmowrey]

If you invested $10,000 in Trump coin on January 20th, 2025, it would be worth $415 today.

You lost everything. He made half a billion.

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

@matthieurouif I would have been angry to hear you photoshopped a badge to get in, but the statute of limitations has long run out on that offense.

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

@matthieurouif Love it! That was a long time ago.

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

@YarlCung @paulg I have one, i just rarely tweet!

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

You know it! 🍴

[Paul Graham @paulg]

14 yo was sent to my office to tell me "Dinner's ready." But I'm cooking dinner. (Lentils are boiling slowly on the stove.) So what this really means is that Jessica's ready to eat it.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Noora Health is hiring a CTO. If you want to make the world a better place, it's hard to imagine a job where you could have more impact. They've already saved over 70,000 children's lives. Help them save more.

https://t.co/B4Uacg2kOg

[Paul Graham @paulg]

All he asked for this year was a 49ers jersey. Phew.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Legora is the defining legal AI startup

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

RIP Om Malik. You were one of the good 'uns. ❤️

https://t.co/WtlorNlmXx

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Ten years in, Rippling is still shipping big new things.

If you're an enterprise customer, this is the safest kind of company to buy from. They're energetic enough that you know you'll get the latest tech, but you also know they won't just disappear.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I asked Claude about the air conditioning debate in Europe, and it really didn’t pull any punches.

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

@garrytan Congrats Sean Grove!!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@KTmBoyle The critical change was when there started to be a path for startups to build very serious hardware -- not just consumer electronics, but things like supersonic planes and fusion reactors. Once you have that, defense tech is just a question of who you sell to.

[Nicolas Dessaigne @dessaigne]

I was 37 when I started YC. It changed my company and my life.
I’m sharing that because a lot of founders quietly think they missed their window. Too old, too settled, should’ve done it at 25.
You haven’t missed it. The experience you think makes you late is often what lets you build.

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

@harjtaggar @kul Duh. I love that you actually were at that match! Such exciting goals.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

I'm going to show this to every founder who refuses to launch early.

https://t.co/874OixahKD

[Sam Altman @sama]

noam is one of the people I have most wanted to work with since the very beginning of openai.

only took 10 years.

i think it will be worth the wait!

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

❤️

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Harshita Arora was 17 when she cofounded AtoB and got into YC.

I was 27 when I cofounded Posterous and got into YC.

Nicolas Dessaigne was 37 when he cofounded Algolia and got into YC

It doesn’t matter what age you are. YC is the community to join to go fast when starting.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I just came across this essay I wrote in 2012 predicting that hard tech startups would become a big thing. Not for the last time, YC applications turned out to be a good predictor of future trends.

The Hardware Renaissance: https://t.co/rLuH5x4CeI