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- Jessica Livingston (born 1971) is an American investor, writer, and podcaster. She is best known for being a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] She is the wife of founding partner Paul Graham.
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Jessica Livingston (born 1971) is an American investor, writer, and podcaster. She is best known for being a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. [1] [2] [3] She is the wife of founding partner Paul Graham.
So although Jessica more than anyone made YC unique, the very qualities that enabled her to do it mean she tends to get written out of YC's history. Everyone buys this story that PG started YC and his wife just kind of helped. Even YC's haters buy it.
Jul 10, 2018 · Jessica Livingston co-founded Y Combinator, the first accelerator, with Paul Graham in 2005. She shares her personal story, from growing up without a mother to meeting Paul and starting YC, and gives advice to female founders.
- Zak Stone
- Steve Huffman 4. Alexis Ohanian 6. Chris Slowe 10. Aaron Swartz
- Emmett Shear 11. Justin Kan
- Mikhail Ledvich
- Sam Altman Not Pictured: Nick Sivo
- Jesse Tov
- Jessica Livingston 16. Paul Graham
Co-founder, Memamp Where is he now? Product manager for Cloud TPUs, Google Along with Chris Slowe, Zak Stone co-founded Memamp, a desktop search startup. The two had been working on their idea for about a year before being accepted into Y Combinator’s First Batch, but it wasn’t meant to be. That summer, Google released its own desktop search featur...
Founders, Reddit Where are they now? Ohanian: Entrepreneur, investor Huffman: CEO, Reddit Slowe: CTO, Reddit Swartz: Committed suicide in 2013 at age 26. After the initial rejection of their first startup idea, MyMobileMenu, Alexis Ohanian and his fellow founders started work on “the front page of the internet.” That project, an idea that came from...
Founders, Kiko Where are they now? Shear: CEO, Twitch Kan: CEO of shuttered startup Atrium Justin Kan and Emmett Shear have found massive success since first signing up for Y Combinator’s first class. The founders sold their online calendar startup, Kiko, a year after graduating YC, when they realized the new Google Calendar would eclipse their own...
Founders, Clickfacts Where is he now? VP, Senior Digital Product Consultant, Bank of America Clickfacts, one of the lesser known startups to come out of Y Combinator, was a malware software solutions company. After YC, its co-founders continued running their startup until its demise sometime after 2012. Although it didn’t generate much buzz while i...
Founders, Loopt Where are they now? Altman: CEO, OpenAI Sivo: Runs YC Hacker News After Loopt failed to gain traction in the years following its run with Y Combinator, Sam Altman and Nick Sivo sold their startup in 2012. Since then, Altman has kept close ties with YC, first becoming a part-time partner, then president of the startup accelerator in ...
Founder, Simmery Axe Where is he now? Computer Science Professor at Northwestern University Like some of the other startups to come from Y Combinator’s First Batch, Simmary Axe shut down not long after the summer program ended. Its founder, Jesse Tov, hasn’t spent much time as an entrepreneur since, trading the startup life for academia. He now tea...
Founders, Y Combinator Where are they now? Both Graham and Livingston still run Y Combinator. As for Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, the husband and wife duo have ceased running the startup accelerator day to day, and now have a full-time staff. Graham, who stepped down in 2014, has been called a “startup guru” for the major companies that have...
If you only know about me through the media, you might get the impression that my contribution to Y Combinator is that I’m Paul Graham’s wife. And while I love being his wife, there's a bit more to the story than that. I was born in Minneapolis in 1971. Later that year, my mother left home, leaving my father alone with a small baby.
Jessica Livingston is an American investor, writer, and podcaster. She is best known for being a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. She is the wife of founding partner Paul Graham.
In 2008, Graham married Jessica Livingston. [33] [34] [35] They have two children, and have been living in England since 2016. [36] [37]
