Julia French

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Paul Graham (@paulg) whether founders should move to Silicon Valley, and what it takes to build a startup hub anywhere else.

Live from our YC | Stockholm event on April 29, 2026.

01:01 – Why the Big Center Matters
02:45 – The Power of Serendipitous Meetings
04:36 – Investors Move Faster in the Valley
06:03 – Respect Follows the Move
07:59 – The Dropbox Story
09:10 – Measuring Yourself Against Big Fish
12:21 – Silicon Valley's Pay-It-Forward Culture
15:36 – How to Help Stockholm Thrive
17:24 – YC as the Optimal Path
19:54 – Could Stockholm Become The Silicon Valley of Europe?

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@Starbucks please bring back your apple juice from the bar and your cookies and cream cake pop- my 9 year old son

[ABC News @ABC]

Owen Cooper, 15, who starred in the critically acclaimed Netflix limited series "Adolescence," made history tonight by becoming the youngest winner for outstanding supporting actor in a limited/anthology series or TV movie.

Read more: https://t.co/3MTszOI2UU

[Annie ❤️‍🔥 @AnnieLiao_2000]

come live with us - we have a room available in our hacker house in hayes!

our beautiful roomie is moving out back to Yale after her summer internship at Harvey 🥹

you would be sharing with four other seed stage founders.

we are all heads down on our own missions but also ruthlessly support and care for each other

available now for 3 month sublease in hayes valley

share or reply if interested! ❤️

@panda_liyin

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@AnnieLiao_2000 💯💯💯

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@PaulBassat The biggest issue is for young people entering the work force, those early years of mentorship/networking build your work life in your 30’s seeing how people work is so critical. Even on the age of Ali I’d argue it’s needed more now than ever.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Jung said: “The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.”

Founders on their journey must overcome their inner situation and integrate their shadow.

Only then will they have a chance at altering fate itself.

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@paulg 😭

[Annie ❤️‍🔥 @AnnieLiao_2000]

pov: living in SF in your 20s–30s is basically the Hunger Games:

- the reaping: founding engineers who give up on their founder dreams
- Blue Bottle SoMa is the pregame showcase
- everyone is trauma bonded, no one wins
- Katniss: emotionally unavailable tech bro/sis you keep trying to date
- sponsor gifts: your pre-seed round with $0 rev
- Mission is District 12. no one leaves unchanged
- there’s not much good food

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@AnnieLiao_2000 💗 The best

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@AnnieLiao_2000 We had one @ChrisSaad a was in it

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@VullinghsJ Think we are at a point now where Australia stands up, and moves to a position of greater authority/autonomy and less of a focus on taking advantage/benefiting from others 🇦🇺❤️

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@flySFO so….if someone pulls the fire alarm not every passenger should pay for your lack of diligence @elonmusk isn’t this your city??

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@VullinghsJ “It’s not about copying.
It's not about data or information.
It's about compute.”
- Jonathan Ross, Groq

[Aaron Levie @levie]

This is why you don’t tax unrealized capital gains. The cycle of innovation will cease, and the entrepreneurs simply will just go elsewhere.

[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

Just downloaded Gemini Live, and I’m absolutely blown away. Speaking directly to AI with zero latency—this voice interaction is the future of consumer AI. Incredible work, @sundarpichai. Truly groundbreaking. Try it immediately: https://t.co/PysnzJsh7f”

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

@philiprosedale Open the pod bay doors Hal 😭

[Julia French @JuliaFrench]

Thanks for having me @jamesfromsydney and @hughstephens
Good to get a bit unfiltered on all this 🌟🇦🇺🇺🇸

[James (Galileo VC) @jamesfromsydney]

Trump's back in.

But what's next for tech in the 🇺🇸 US and 🇦🇺 AU?

Silicon Valley veteran @JuliaFrench joins us for our post US election special! covering implications of another Trump presidency.

We had a lot of fun discussing what's next 🚀

Full ep: https://t.co/hLqW7fJkrp

[James (Galileo VC) @jamesfromsydney]

Trump's back in.

But what's next for tech in the 🇺🇸 US and 🇦🇺 AU?

Silicon Valley veteran @JuliaFrench joins us for our post US election special! covering implications of another Trump presidency.

We had a lot of fun discussing what's next 🚀

Full ep: https://t.co/hLqW7fJkrp

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Til now there were two opposing forces acting on San Francisco. It was both the center of the AI revolution, and had one of the most dysfunctional city governments in America. Now there's just the first.