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Alexis Ohanian ignored Paul Graham’s warning that Reddit’s ‘terrible’ name would be ‘poison’. Now it’s a $38 billion business

“Disregarding that advice was definitely one of the things I got right,” Ohanian said.

Fortune

Meet the power broker of the AI age: OpenAI's 'builder-in-chief' helping to turn Sam Altman's trillion-dollar data center dreams into reality

Greg Brockman is OpenAI's master builder, steering a $1.4 trillion infrastructure buildout with stakes that go far beyond the tech sector.

Fortune

Reddit’s CEO has just become a billionaire—a staggering 20 years after co-founding the company fresh out of college with $12,000

It’s been exactly two decades since Huffman founded the company in 2005 with friend and college roommate Alexis Ohanian.

Fortune

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Reddit Wouldn't Exist If ICE Had Grabbed My Mother, Says Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian: Undocumented Immigrants Can Have 'Pretty Productive' Kids

Reddit Inc. (NYSE:RDDT) co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham are among a growing number of people condemning the Donald Trump administration's 2025 ICE deportation operations.

Benzinga

Exclusive: EvenUp raises $150 million Series E at $2 billion valuation as AI reshapes personal injury law

After getting rejected at least 3 times by Y Combinator, the founders of EvenUp have become legal tech leaders.

Fortune

This multimillionaire once cleaned meat trucks for $7 an hour, but a coffee shop encounter proved 'You're just one move away from changing your life'

Jesse Itzler, who ultimately sold his $5 billion-in-sales private jet business to Warren Buffett, says the world doesn’t reward perfect plans, "it rewards action."

Fortune

Psychedelics Without the Trip? Heavyweights Like Neuralink, Coinbase, Twitch Back AI Startup Developing 'Least Psychedelic Psychedelic' Drug

Mindstate Design Labs is developing drugs that aim to deliver psychedelic benefits without a trip, drawing funding from Y Combinator and the founders of OpenAI, Neuralink, Instacart (NASDAQ:CART), Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), and Twitch, according to Wired.

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Teen Founders, Tap The Brakes: Paul Graham Says Curiosity Beats Companies In High School — Despite YC Wins With Airbnb, Reddit, And Sam Altman At 19

The co-founder of Silicon Valley’s most influential startup accelerator is delivering a reality check to ambitious teenagers everywhere. Paul Graham, whose Y Combinator has funded giants like Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB), Stripe, Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX), and Reddit (NYSE:RDDT), is warning high schoolers to pump the brakes on their entrepreneurial dreams.

Benzinga

What the rise of ChatGPT mastermind Sam Altman reveals about AI, tech and power

Since dropping out of Stanford University, Sam Altman has become one of the world's most influential tech entrepreneurs – at the helm of OpenAI and its artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT. The author of a new biography of Altman tells RFI what his ascent reveals about AI, Silicon Valley and how…

Radio France Internationale

YC co-founder who backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit says high school isn’t the time to launch a startup

One of the leaders behind Silicon Valley’s biggest start-ups is advising high school students to embrace learning in class before jumping into their dream business.

Fortune

Amazon And Microsoft Engineers Quit At 23 To Launch AI Startup Bluejay, Raise $4 Million With Y Combinator And Floodgate

At just 23 years old, Rohan Vasishth and Faraz Siddiqi left jobs at Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to pursue a risky bet.

Benzinga

Here's What Separates Oklo From the Rest of the Nuclear Startups

Nuclear stocks are flying high this year. But one pre-revenue startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman could produce enormous gains over the long-term.

MarketBeat

OpenAI may soon be the most valuable private company—but Sam Altman’s net worth won’t jolt, as the CEO holds no equity and makes just $76,001 a year

OpenAI’s Sam Altman didn’t build his fortune off his modest CEO salary. The tech titan worth $1.9 billion instead made critical early investments in Uber, Airbnb, and Reddit that yielded hundreds of millions of dollars.

Fortune

Alexandr Wang is now leading Meta’s AI dream team. Will Mark Zuckerberg's big bet pay off?

Tapped by Mark Zuckerberg to lead Meta’s most ambitious AI initiative yet, Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang now oversees a powerhouse team tasked with achieving superintelligence—and outpacing rivals like OpenAI and Google. No pressure.

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Tech CEO Garry Tan slams college entrepreneurship programs for 'teaching you to lie'—he warns Gen Z students that it could land them in jail

Y Combinator boss Garry Tan warns against the “dangerous” embrace of Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes by some education programs.

Benzinga

12 Next-Gen AI And Social Startups Backed By Thrive Capital And Y Combinator Shaping 2025: 'We're On The Brink Of Another Big Consumer Wave'

A new wave of AI-driven consumer startups is gaining traction among investors in 2025, with many of these platforms blending artificial intelligence with real-world interaction to reshape how people connect, discover, and build communities, Business Insider reports.

Benzinga

Soham Parekh Accused Of Fooling YC Startups While Working 4 Jobs At Once: Suhail Doshi Says He Faked His Resume, Lied About His Location

Suhail Doshi, founder of Playground AI and analytics platform Mixpanel Inc., publicly accused an Indian software engineer of simultaneously working at multiple startups while allegedly defrauding Y Combinator portfolio companies.

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People Are Using ‘ChatGPT as This Operating System With Their Whole Lives,’ Says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses the growing trend of integrating AI into daily life, positioning ChatGPT as a central operating system for personal and professional data.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Praises Palantir's FDE Model As 'Fantastic'—Insiders Say It's Not Consulting, It Builds 'The Product Customers Need'

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella called Palantir Technologies Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:PLTR) Forward Deployed Engineer model “fantastic” at a Y Combinator event, prompting industry debate about the data analytics company’s unique approach to product development.

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‘We Got Very Close to Not Starting OpenAI’: Sam Altman Almost Passed on AI, Says It Was a ‘Pipe Dream’ that ‘Sounded Crazy’

A pivotal decision by Sam Altman to pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI) led to the founding of OpenAI, shaping today’s AI landscape.

International Business Times UK

$200 Million US Defense Contract: OpenAI's Big Win as Microsoft Tensions Escalate

Sam Altman has signed a contract allowing the US Defense Department to access custom AI models for 'national security' purposes, amid tense negotiations between OpenAI and Microsoft.

Tom’s Hardware

Plans to shrink particle accelerators by 1,000x could speed chipmaking by 15X - Inversion Semiconductor proposes 'tabletop' particle accelerators with petawatt lasers

Inversion Semiconductor, a 2024 startup backed by Y Combinator, aims to develop a compact, LWFA-based light source that 10 times more powerful than ASML's current EUV light sources while also targeting even shorter wavelengths.

Fortune

How CEO Drew Houston is ‘rebuilding Dropbox for the modern era’

"I want to be building things like Dash that sort of make Dropbox 1.0 look like a footnote," Houston told Fortune.

Geekflare

This YC-Backed AI Assistant Makes Excel Way Easier

Excel is one of the most used tools and a source of frustration for many professionals. However, this tool from Y Combinator, Carousel, aims to tackle

Geekflare

This Y Combinator-Backed AI Startup Can Replace Your Intern

We all hate repetitive tasks that we have to do on a daily basis. But this Y Combinator-backed AI startup called Tessa Workflows wants to eliminate that

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