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YC Founder Firesides: Brex on spend and speed as a strategy

by Y Combinator4/21/2022

YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Brex Co-CEO Henrique Dubugras to talk about the launch of Empower and Henrique’s advice for startup founders and CEOs.

Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown

by Y Combinator12/11/2019

Laks Srini is the cofounder and CTO of ZeroDown. Before that he was the cofounder and CTO of Zenefits.

Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years

by Y Combinator12/4/2019

Matt Cutts is the Administrator of the US Digital Service and previously he was the head of the webspam team at Google.

Vikrum Nijjar: Engineer #1 at Firebase and Founder of Gold Fig Labs (YC S19)

by Ryan Choi11/22/2019

Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever it took to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobile SDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for 24×7 hour shifts… for over a year.

Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market

by Y Combinator8/28/2019

Diana Hu cofounded Escher Reality, which went through the Summer 2017 batch of YC. They were acquired by Niantic and she is now the head of their AR platform.

Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors

by Y Combinator8/21/2019

Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree.