Ryan Choi 🐢💵

Dad to three! creative & clever girls. Open to all tips you have.

Also @ycombinator helping YC startups build their companies, everything after the batch.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

We're excited to announce Diana Hu (@sdianahu) as YC's newest Managing Partner.

Diana co-founded Escher Reality (YC S17), which was acquired by Niantic, where she shipped AR to the 100M+ people playing Pokémon GO. Since returning to YC as a partner, she has worked with nearly 230 companies that are now worth a combined $7 billion.

Few people have built a startup from zero and also shipped at global scale. Diana has done both.

https://t.co/paonIsrK0F

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

YC hits Hollywood. Imagine that. Awesome stuff @simpleailab

[cat @catheryn_li]

@ReeseW uses @simpleailab to make AI phone calls and so can you 😏

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@robofrobs @Target @CardPurchaser do you need a panini press every day like me?

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

I have this screen grab on my desktop so I never forget -- and i clearly still never learn. hope you all do.

ty @diqitally

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

… thank you?

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

Clearly Trader Joe's mini ice cream cones are for *after* dinner. But with the way this week is trending... it's what's for dinner.

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@willmegson @ycombinator

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

(1/5) We’ve got 3 more full-stack eng positions open here @ycombinator. Being on this team and helping hire for YC has let me work alongside some of the brightest, kindest and most ambitious people I know – and that’s just YC employees! 🥰

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@kautilya_p Sorry, we don't typically have interns here. But we do run an internship program for students who intern at one of our startups:

https://t.co/PpYROZJR2r

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@UNinvested_ @ycombinator - https://t.co/hlSZGnTTzJ
- bookface (Google it)
- apply software
- https://t.co/0krPbzPJsS
- lots of fancy, custom built internal software that only CRM geeks like me absolutely love

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@BlueBir75555922 @ycombinator

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@pradeep24 Thx for the repost -- rry appreciate it!

I've done my startup tour of duty (@salesforce @Zuora @lyft) and this is one of the top three teams i've ever worked with.

I feel lucky to be here, and I'm a papa bear making sure we have great, kind people to serve YC founders!

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@ryansrealistic Hi Ryan! I appreciate it, and saw your note! Totally understand, and let me get you some resources that might be helpful, starting with this:

https://t.co/PKyz0Z5VRc

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@leozc @ycombinator Wow, thank you! If I could work with you again I absolutely would. (But maybe not at you-know-where. ;-)

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

(5/5) Hit me up or apply if you want to learn tons about startups, and want to build great software with great people – [email protected]

Internal: https://t.co/Uqbv92FlNI

Bookface: https://t.co/VLVfhlXDa3

Work at a Startup: https://t.co/tdZlAK3nXP

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

(4/5) Not a founder and want to start your own startup? Work here for 2 years, learn a TON and then start your own startup – We’re down for that.

In fact, 8 people from our SW team have gone on to start startups and go through YC. Might even be a few in the next batch. 🧐

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@vidarmasson Any specific toolkit or online host/distro?

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

Hny! Teaching my daughter web dev. data store online: Apollo graphql? Online Postgres free somewhere? Something else? What’s easy with flask?

[Ryan Choi 🐢💵 @rchoi]

@diqitally Good rec on supabase, seems like a good abstraction