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3 takeaways from Y Combinator’s summer startup class

The accelerator’s Demo Day was all about A.I. startups—but a couple of other themes emerged.

Fortune

Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’

A.I. "is turning out to be the missing piece in a large number of important, almost-completed puzzles," said the Y Combinator cofounder.

Fortune

Sam Altman: the OpenAI CEO leading the AI revolution

The launch of ChatGPT last November propelled OpenAI, and its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, into the global spotlight.

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Garry Tan breaks down the key metric in Y Combinator's new list of top startups

The accelerator's focus on net revenue is to "encourage people to build businesses of real, great value."

Fortune

Sam Altman has "enough money" but has other 'selfish' reasons for leading OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasized that he has no equity in the company and cares more about having an "interesting life."

Fortune

Paul Graham says remote work ‘does work initially,’ which is why it ‘fooled’ leaders who have since ‘changed their minds’

"Remote work does work initially, if you start with a system already healthy from in-person work," said the Y Combinator cofounder.

Fortune

Airbnb’s CEO and cofounder says the best advice he was ever given was ‘counterintuitive’ to what most people would tell you

One of Airbnb’s early investors taught Brian Chesky a valuable lesson that helped the company’s founders grow their business.

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Paul Graham on the one quality startup founders need

It isn’t obvious who has it, noted the Y Combinator cofounder, but it's why he bet on Airbnb despite his doubts about the concept.

Fortune

Accelerator interest spikes as VCs bulk up seed investing

Especially in A.I., Accelerators are seen as a way to get broad access to talent and tech.

Fortune

Sam Altman lists the startup rules OpenAI broke on its way to a nearly $30 billion valuation

“Don’t invest,” he told potential investors who said the ChatGPT maker was doing it all wrong.

Fortune

Airbnb's CEO says a $40 cereal box changed the course of the multi-billion-dollar company

Airbnb's founders had trouble convincing early investors that people would want to stay with strangers. Then a $40 cereal box helped change their minds.

Fortune

Sam Altman wants to give you crypto to scan your eyeballs. Can he get 8 billion people stare into a futuristic orb to prove they're not A.I. bots?

Inside the ChatGPT founder’s other venture, a crypto-powered sci-fi startup.

Fortune

One of Silicon Valley's Top Banks Fails; Assets are Seized

Regulators rushed Friday to seize the assets of one of Silicon Valley's top banks, marking the largest failure of a US financial institution since the height of the financial crisis almost 15 years ago. Silicon Valley Bank, the nation’s 16th-largest bank, failed after depositors hurried to withdraw money this week…

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Silicon Valley Bank failure could wipe out 'a whole generation of startups'

The implosion of Silicon Valley Bank could force hundreds of tech startups to lay off workers or shut down completely. It remains unclear how much, if any, of depositors' money will be returned.

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Shockwaves rock US tech and finance sectors as Silicon Valley Bank goes belly-up

US regulators have seized Silicon Valley Bank's assets, marking the largest failure of a financial institution since the height of the GFC

Fortune

The tech mogul who gave the world ChatGPT is investing $180 million into a life extension startup

At startup incubator Y Combinator, Sam Altman got interested in aging research after an experiment with old and young mice, MIT Tech Review reported.

Fortune

YC's Surbhi Sarna says work-life balance is a misnomer

How one medical device founder-turned-investor kept all the balls in the air at once.

Fortune

Inside Initialized Capital’s next moves as co-founder and star investor Garry Tan steps back

Jen Wolf and Brett Gibson lay out the future of the early-stage VC firm.

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Tech billionaires rally around nuclear as energy crisis looms

In recent weeks, some of Silicon Valley’s most famous technologists have hailed a historically polarizing energy source — nuclear power — as a solution to both cutting carbon emissions and weaning the world off now-controversial Russian gas.

Benzinga

How Fintech Soon Lets You Protect Your Cash Flow And Better Spend Investment Gains

Post-pandemic, many fintechs are seeking to help customers better spend, save, and invest in an era of heightened inflation. Among them is Soon, a Salt Lake City-based fintech that just raised $500,000 and is participating in the Winter 2022 Y Combinator Cohort.

Benzinga

Y Combinator Startup Uses AI To Design New Drug-Induced States Of Consciousness

A new psychedelics company, part of the 2021 Y Combinator alumni, has officially launched. Mindstate Design Labs is a biotech startup focused on developing new drugs capable of inducing curated states of mind.

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