How Y Combinator Changed the World
If launching Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox weren’t enough, the famous accelerator has had an outsize – and mixed – impact on all of us.
Wired,
2021
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Y Combinator has become a Silicon Valley household name. The company has helped thousands of start-ups get going, including such blockbusters as Airbnb. However, Y Combinator’s impact stretches beyond the tech start-up sector. As Steven Levy explains in Wired, the company helped define an investment culture centered around the celebration of audacious founders and investors’ unceasing, frantic search for the next unicorn.
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Steven Levy is a tech writer for Wired.
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