Combinator Quotes

#1. The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

Sam Altman

#2. We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

Douglas Leone

#3. Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.

Sam Altman

#4. We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.

Alexis Ohanian

#5. When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.

Mark Fletcher

#6. One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

Sam Altman

#7. I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.

Patrick Collison

#8. Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

Sam Altman

#9. That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.

Sam Altman

#10. Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook.

Robert Scoble

#11. (J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.

John Boyne

#12. Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

Samuel Johnson

#13. Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.

Albert Einstein

#14. I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

Peter Dinklage

#15. Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

Jack Kingston

#16. The only scenes I can stand in any of the Star Wars films are the quiet scenes in the second one, The Empire Strikes Back. Or rather, it used to be the second one, before the fourth one became the first one, thus making the second one the third one.

Nick Hornby

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Jane Austen

#18. Black Willow by Evan Bollinger

Evan Bollinger