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What was your first personal investment like?
(This was sort of funny years later, when I was sorting through my stock certificates. I momentarily forgot that Stripe was originally called something else, and put that stock cert in the "lost cause" pile.)
What would look like promising, realistic starting points for -- or even attributes of -- such a nascent startup? e.g., chat bots, development platforms, intelligent agents for games?
What was your first personal investment like?
It was /dev/finance, which became Stripe. (This was sort of funny years later, when I was sorting through my stock certificates. I momentarily forgot that Stripe was originally called something else, and put that stock cert in the "lost cause" pile.)
Hi Sam! Best actionable advice you can give to a room full of entrepreneurs in 30 seconds? Thanks.
When will we see the peak of the commercial and medical results of having a sequenced population?
What could prevent us from getting all our genes sequenced? Shouldn't we try to facilitate mass sequencing, for all the medical benefits it could provide? What can YCombinator do to influence corporate and political entities to collaborate and reach a solution to expedite this process?
I'm considering applying for YC but I think my idea (a fairly simple time management app for smartwatches) might be a bit too modest. How small of an idea is too small?
Sam, should everyone's genomes be sequenced? Will most Americans have their DNA sequenced by 2025,2030? When will we see the peak of the commercial and medical results of having a sequenced population? What could prevent us from getting all our genes sequenced? Shouldn't we try to facilitate mass sequencing, for all the medical benefits it could provide? What can YCombinator do to influence corporate and political en…
I think the best thing YC can do is fund startups enabling this (and offering good applications on top of it).
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Update: It has been restored as of 9:33am PST. No sure why the downvotes, I found this is be somewhat amazing given whose post this was.
[1] as of 9:28am PST at least
Do you think a startup could realistically end up being the entity to develop some of the earliest significant AGI? What would look like promising, realistic starting points for -- or even attributes of -- such a nascent startup? e.g., chat bots, development platforms, intelligent agents for games?
I think the starting points you mention are very promising ones.