Lessons from YC AI Startups

Post by atleastoptimal » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 7:39 PM UTC

motohagiography wrote: post #81

atleastoptimal wrote: post #2

Something I've noticed going through founder's LinkedIn pages is that it seems that entrepreneurs seem to be significantly more attractive than the average person. I assume a partial causative factor could be that the number of positive impressions you make on people with influence correlates with success of your startup, and one's capacity to make positive interpersonal impressions correlates with physical attractiv…

If you take the intersection of people who are basically fit and lack latent or unmanaged anxiety disorders, then add people who are self motivated and driven, you're going to get a fairly attractive cohort. Attractiveness is basically fitness and low neuroticism. If you have those and enough emotional intelligence to not be a criminal, you're going to generally fail upwards. Add any one of an elite education, a stde…

Post by motohagiography » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 7:54 PM UTC

atleastoptimal wrote: post #91

motohagiography wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you take the intersection of people who are basically fit and lack latent or unmanaged anxiety disorders, then add people who are self motivated and driven, you're going to get a fairly attractive cohort. Attractiveness is basically fitness and low neuroticism. If you have those and enough emotional intelligence to not be a criminal, you're going to generally fail upwards. Add any one of an elite education, a stde…

How does low neuroticism contribute to physical attractiveness?

Post by plaidfuji » Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 2:20 AM UTC

malux85 wrote: post #22

SkyMarshal wrote: post #18

Anyone know what the Energy, Materials Science, and Security ones were? All other categories I can generally intuit how AI is being used, especially LLMs, but not so those three categories. Edit: here they are: Energy: - https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/elyos-energy - https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/line-build - https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/helios-climate-industr... - https://www.ycombinator.com/c…

I am in computational chemistry which has some crossover with Materials Science. AI is useful for speeding up simulations, doing molecular interaction predictions, doing property predictions, doing molecular docking. LLMs are helpful as research assistants and helping design and run experiments. https://atomictessellator.com/ For example, my latest module (I am putting the finishing touches on this as we speak) uses…

Post by iancmceachern » Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 4:31 AM UTC

frob wrote: post #64

iancmceachern wrote: post #24

Are there any examples if successful exits or AI companies making it into the black yet? In general, not just YC

Wit.ai. YC Winter 2014. Natural language tools for developers. Acquired by Facebook in 2015. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wit-ai