College dropout from Havard/Yale/Stanford/(insert Ivy league college here) , from a rich family who didn't need college in the first place. There I finished the title. Now let's watch.

It’s because the hard part about elite colleges is getting in. Not completing them.

“Hyper focused” is really inaccurate. If anything I focus on the demo. -Garry

Garry himself cooked u

​@ycombinator I plan to start my startup after college because I don't come from enough money to do it without a good paying job. If I had the funds I would do it in a heartbeat. My startup idea in my opinion is stark but without a good mvp and a decent client base, funding is nearly impossible.

@@donventi3567 But when will you get started on planning to start your startup?

​@@ycombinatorare yc more focused on us founders these days? i am unfortunately not from US and only graduated from an asia top school but I really need a chance for an interview, but it seems that not much good news for international applicants recently..

Yes, but unironically.

No one is saying you have to start a freaking billion dollar startup. Of course that's risky and requires extremely hard work. If you want less risk / don't want to work extremely hard, then get a normal job. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

@@ugabuga8791 Keep in mind that this program is not simply free advice. It's a recruitment drive for Y Combinator. Most of the students they convince to quit school will fail at startups, not win. But if YC can own a stake in at least a few of the companies that do succeed, they'll have downside coverage. Unlike the students who quit college early dreaming of starting a trillion-dollar company.

Sameeee /sigh

I am 24 yr old but it hits the same…

​@@hugodemenez same here, 22 and hits hard

Nah, you have an edge guys!

Its a cycle that repeats over and over with every generation

because unsurprisingly they are also the ones working the hardest of any of us.. You see the titles now, but they did not have a title growing up. No one is stopping us from grabbing that title.

Right Salesforce is just a SQL wrapper company

​@@ycombinator Yeah, but with AI you can build what would be the equivalent of an SQL database that can retrieve data from any other company's SQL database, and not only mimic all behaviours of their product, but extend their functionality - all with an arguably superior natural language interface, and without additional development cost. Postgres/SQL dbs are generally technologies, not companies. Building on top of OpenAI/Google, etc, is very different, because it'd be like creating SalesForce on top of a version of Postgres that is also trying to offer the functionality of SalesForce. ChatGPT can explain what I mean better than I can: Imagine a town with many libraries, each with its own system. A new librarian arrives who understands them all and finds any book just by talking to visitors. This is like an AI that can seamlessly access and enhance any database, making data retrieval and use effortless. Also the librarian wants to kill the other librarians. (I may have added that last sentence).

@@ycombinatorWe are building the next generation of CRM, just graduated college 2 weeks ago, with $925 of revenue to date, but still no YC interview. Going through a great start-up program through Georgia Tech right now as we adjust to full-time start-up mode. Excited to re-apply if we don’t hear back if it still makes sense for us!

@@spencertate6058 Are you talking about Create-X?

@@ycombinator Cute comparison but no. SQL is not an agent that can understand natural language, write code, and execute arbitrary tasks over long horizon. “This time it’s different” is true for AGI

Thank God. Student debt is fucking criminal in 2024 when information has been free for decades

@@howtoactuallyinvest Yep and especially when that information from KZfaq is WAY more current than the materials college provides - teaching the past vs teaching the now and the future

maybe it's getting more common

Check out the other episode we recently published: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9h0eJWWm5_InJc.html

No we accept lots of people with no pedigree

Not the hype, it will be the future

@@hoangtran-ek8mn ok, impending crash soon

@@j1o23kfgall at least you understand

YC accepts all kinds of companies. What are you working on?

@@ycombinatorwe’re working on an A.I Powered BlockchainGPT built from our already existing Staking as a Service, Nymbus Capital LLC. Applied for S24

@@ycombinator We're still waiting for YC to review our application. We're building a personalized community space for college students by training and integrating modern small language models.

@@ycombinator Software for field service businesses, but focused on UX and simplicity

@@ycombinator A software for field service businesses. there's no AI till now but planning to use AI for auto measuring landscapes.

They said replies will start coming in May 29th.

@@SylvesterMolokoane I thought that is the last day to hear back from them?

@@milosjovanovic803 😂😂

​@@SylvesterMolokoane you're wrong, the rejections are coming on May 29th, but a lot of people already getting interviews and getting accepted.

@SylvesterMolokoane I still didn't got any response, which means they will send me an automatic email by tomorrow :(

🤐

It’s not too late.

College degree have no relation with new inventions or change the world. You can build something without college degree.

how ignorant

Entrepreneurs barely start out as experts.

@@mimi21746 That is stating the obvious and just another reason why the next AI billionaire will be an older, much more experienced Baby Boomer.

I would NOT lead with that if I was you and JUST focus on the tech and the story of your team, they can't empathize and will likely lean towards "no" the moment you use that.

@@Darth_Bateman exactly, you said the unsaid. Never talk about race, geography, gender... It's a victim card.

Hi, applied too. What's your start up about? @mercy

@@Darth_Bateman well what if everything check out but our location ? just asking,

@@jimmykimani26 It’s a meet up platform 🙂🙂

same here lol wanna connect?

And understanding how it connects together and how to use it effectively, without human intervention. That's intelligence.

what are you building?

Big 4 can’t ship but you, a startup, can

They literally ship new versions like a week ago

create for concrete use case, and use chatgpt 4 as wrapper for your service. and you will be good, you don't need billions for it

create for concrete use case, and use GPT 4 as wrapper for your service. and you will be good, you don't need billions for it

Ofc, you can. You're not competing against those big corporates, you're competing against product managers at those companies

But a very poor realist compared to Dalton and Michael Seibel