Almost Quote by Patrick Collison

A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major…

— Arvind Gupta

We think of the Techstars product as not really the accelerator but the network. That's what entrepreneurs should be valuing here. I think it's…

— David Cohen

What I Iove about Y Combinator is that it is a level playing field. If you get in, you immediately become a Silicon Valley…

— Michael Seibel

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

— Buzz Aldrin

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

— Sam Altman

One of the reasons I think Y Combinator is so powerful is because it creates a new social norm, especially for those who come…

— Justin Kan

One of the most fun and interesting things about YC is that we are kind of a startup ourselves. We are constantly changing and…

— Michael Seibel

“Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic hierarchies and…

— Ashlee Vance

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.

— Marvin Minsky

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality…

— Paul Di Filippo

We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success,…

— David Cohen

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the…

— Sam Wyly