Mark A. Schrader

I am intrigued about the Tar Heel basketball coaching search at this point. No telling what's next. #GoHeels

@justingordon212 Low 9 figures? Lots of cases

@MarkASchrader How many?

So... what do we think OpenAI paid for TBPN?

@shcallaway This is breaking my brain

Wait, April 1 was yesterday… Right?

@jasonlk Good show

We're back!!

@johncoogan @sama Super curious what this looks like going forward

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.

@zanehengsperger “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

these people are on a roll. maintenance might be one of the largest growing markets in the next 10 years someone could build a huge company/solve a huge problem here also you can send them to nox metals for PMs

"We treat software like it is so precious. And in the new world we're going to, it's going to be much more fungible. But that's the good news." @garrytan on where the moats will be for future YC companies: "That's where taste, agency, and trust matter a lot. This is something that's only crystallized recently. We've been talking about agency and taste for the longest time. Agency is being able to prompt, and taste is being able to do evals." "Trust is the third thing. It's probably the most important. When you have an enterprise company that is selling to real businesses that are relying on you — that's your moat. Your moat is actually trust. They went through the effort to try you, get you onboarded, and incorporate you into how they work."

@tbpn @garrytan

@zanehengsperger (Asks perplexity: what is a cnc machine?)

i am starting to realize that most people dont know what a cnc machine is

@jeffreyhuber @shcallaway @ycombinator love to see it. y'all really doing it. i'm just a small investor

@shcallaway @MarkASchrader @ycombinator woooooo

I'm returning to YC! @ycombinator has been dream since I was 18. I grew up in North Carolina as the son of a doctor. As a kid, I knew nothing about the world of tech or startups. California was something that only existed in movies and punk songs. But in 2014, everything changed for me. I spent the summer at Dev Bootcamp, a San Francisco-based web development bootcamp. That's when I first learned about YC. Dev Bootcamp changed the trajectory of my life for the better. I finally found something I was good at - and something I was truly passionate about. Everyone at "DBC" was obsessed with Y Combinator, Hacker News, and YC startups like Gusto and Instacart. For years afterwards, it was my dream to found my own YC-backed startup. In 2021, that dream came true - but not in the way I hoped. My roommate Justin Ko and I were admitted to YC S21 to build Opkit, a healthcare voice AI company. S21 was great, but it wasn't the full YC experience: due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the batch was fully remote. When I set out to build @sazabi, the AI-native observability platform for fast-moving engineering teams, I never considered going back to YC. But I reconsidered after having a conversation with @aaron_epstein, my friend and one of Opkit's partners from the S21 batch. Aaron helped convince me that YC was the best way to accelerate Sazabi's growth - and it didn't hurt that I would finally get the YC experience I had wanted for so long! Today, I'm proud to announce that Sazabi is joining the YC P26 batch, due to start on March 30th. We're excited to meet our batchmates, learn from them, and hopefully give back to this community that I love so much. See you on Demo Day!

@shcallaway @ycombinator awesome. grew up down east. in charlotte now. fun to see NC in YC

@MarkASchrader @ycombinator Raleigh :)

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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Hubert Davis is OUT as the head coach at UNC. From AD Bubba Cunningham in a release, "we must move forward in a way that allows our team to compete more consistently at an elite level."

@uncwbb Go Heels!

SO 𝙎𝙒𝙀𝙀𝙏.

@zanehengsperger Looking forward to seeing what they are tho

I will make a bet that of the bezos acquisitions, 50% will be names you have never heard of

Seth Trimble appreciation post #GoHeels

@isaacschade Sorry but I dont think sienna is holding on

Regardless of the Duke / Siena outcome, this isn't exactly inspiring confidence in Duke's longterm capability in this NCAA Tournament.

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