The best part of https://t.co/yGWQLREPQp is the people that you get to meet that genuinely care & are helpful. I invited @Qasar & Vibhu Mittal to be advisors for https://t.co/yGWQLREPQp as they were helpful for my own startup & knew they would be as well for other Xooglers
San Francisco truly is back! #stripesessions security line even if you collected your badge earlier in the week. Any friends here today? Thanks for hosting @stripe 🙏 We should have more conferences in #SF
@andrewchen Incredible opportunity to work with @andrewchen & his amazing team! Will be sure to let the 35,000+ member @XooglerCo community know to apply!
ok - dropping big dates/news for a16z speedrun:
- starting TODAY, founders can apply for the 2026 program that runs July 27 to Oct 11 in SF
here's the link: https://t.co/opkX4cIaCF
- we will be investing up to $1M and funding 70+ companies over the next few weeks
- But there's also $5M in credits/tokens/etc from AWS/GCP/Open AI/Azure/NVIDIA/Deel/Stripe/etc. You'll also work with our amazing operating team (GTM, talent, brand, people, and more), and join our community of elite founders
- we offer a Global Founders Program for international founders, to help with visas, banking support, relo recommendations
- yes you can be solo (but better if you're further along, and have built a team). No you don't have to have an idea yet. Yes you have to know how to build (even if you're not technical)
- Also, in other news: speedun is officially moving full-time to SF. (prev it alternated SF/LA) this is for all the obv reasons
- we've continued to have an insane lineup of speakers, including the founders of Carta / DoorDash / Twilio / Figma / Zynga / Airtable / Twitch / and of course, lunch/dinners with Marc/Ben alongside a16z team - and much more
- the deadline for applying is May 17!
The #YC team always teaches me so much, from @qasar mentoring me as I left @Google while he was YC’s COO to seeing today’s @ycombinator#demoday led by @garrytan@bradflora@ChristinaG325 The startups continue to impress & are ready for investor meetings https://t.co/AfzOFu7OEV
Great to be back at @YCombinator#DemoDay Please dm me or comment 👇🏼 to catch up! There’s a @Google diaspora that invests in early stage #startups reach out to join our investment community, Xooglers you can email me at chris at https://t.co/nbDWgx1vRr to join us!
#xoogler#yc
@qasar Great to hear your voice here @qasar I can't wait to read more about a physical #AI co. with revenue & free cash flow! The 🌎 will finally get to hear the insights you've been sharing in smaller venues like the @Google alumni community @XooglerCo & with folks like me🙏