How Y Combinator Started
March 2012Y Combinator's 7th birthday was March 11. As usual we were so busy we didn't notice till a few days after. I don't think we've ever managed to remember our birthday on our birthday.
- ▪March 2012Y Combinator's 7th birthday was March 11.
- ▪As usual we were so busy we didn't notice till a few days after.
- ▪I don't think we've ever managed to remember our birthday on our birthday.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 21 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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Paul Graham — Essays files mainly under blogs. We currently carry 219 of its stories.
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March 2012Y Combinator's 7th birthday was March 11. As usual we were so busy we didn't notice till a few days after. I don't think we've ever managed to remember our birthday on our birthday. On March 11 2005, Jessica and I were walking home from dinner in Harvard Square. Jessica was working at an investment bank at the time, but she didn't like it much, so she had interviewed for a job as director of marketing at a Boston VC fund. The VC fund was doing what now seems a comically familiar thing for a VC fund to do: taking a long time to make up their mind.
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