Ryan Bednar

You can run your company taking lots of breaks, “working” from home, showing up 2/3/4/5, however many days per week you want, it’s your company, not mine. Writing a long ass article attacking people who care and push themselves hard to create good products comes from a place of insecurity dressed up as intellectual rigor. Working hard and caring is ok, actually. Maybe you can be a pro athlete going to the gym 1 day per week, maybe you can be the best military general not marching on weekends. But attacking those that go to the gym 6 or 7 days per week because they care and because xyz athlete never worked out and did great comes from a bad place, and is bad for the industry, bad for progress, and bad for the soul. It’s funny how those that don’t push themselves have an absolutely visceral reaction to those that do - I certainly don’t write long articles against working from home or being slothful. Bill Gates was always in the office, and I think Microsoft is pretty cool.

@alexisohanian Let’s go!! I can’t believe we came back and stole that one

KNICKS!?!? BING BONG

@JonesOnTheNBA Some Dirk or LaMarcus Aldridge elbow mid-range game would work wonders too. He’d have had 60 last night

I know. But I’m not even saying in the low post. He catches at the high post a lot and can easily turnaround and get efficient shots off. He’s got great touch. As soon as he brings the ball low, he levels the playing field.

Really want Wemby to go visit Kareem like he visited those monks. There’s no need to put the ball on the floor as much as he does. Keep it high and hook these mofos to death

@ericmigi crypto scammers who pump and dump shitcoins only have one move - flood X with bullshit

Lol this guy is ridiculous

There’s a VC fund in Europe that just launched with our exact strategy. They’re also investing in YC companies. A friend sent me their deck. Then like 10 more. They actually took our slides. Literally the same slides. Unaltered. And they copied another fund’s slides and changed just a few words. I’m all for competition but this is just a blatant rip off. Then after about 10 seconds of indignation, I moved on. My founders don’t care. My LPs don’t care. Hell, ‘investing in YC companies’ is by definition not unique. I asked around to some founders these jokers invested in to get feedback. Founders said they were totally fine. (I admit, I was bummed to hear that). Oh well, I just moved on. A few weeks later I ran into the other fund whose slides were also copied and asked him what he thought. He said I guess we should be flattered. Conversation lasted 5 seconds. —- One of our companies is getting slammed right now by a very angry competitor. As an investor here’s what I said in our chat room: Whether you respond or not. Defend yourself or not. Counter swing or not. This is Silicon Valley/X distraction. All that matters is paying your workers well and selling great data to your customers. Make sure you stay focused on serving them. — I know this guy is mad. Back when I was a founder, I also met with VCs only to watch them back a competitor. It stung. In the end, these two companies (and like 10+ others that are all VERY similar) will help millions of people get paid. Will help improve AI across the globe. As their industry evolves, they will non-stop copy each other and one-up each other. Just like every other industry ever. I for one think it makes everyone better. The opportunity for all of you is so large that you each can build large companies. I genuinely hope you all succeed. And when you do compete, I hope the winner is the one that better serves their customers.

@brycent @LuelCompany The marketing site being similar doesn’t seem like such a big scandal to me! Feels like sour grapes IMO

Super excited to colead @LuelCompanyAI’s $31.2M seed round. There are certain teams you meet where you know within 5 minutes that you want to partner with them Luel is one of those team. William and Inigo are incredibly ambitious founders who understand the human data bottleneck from the inside out. They've built Luel to create a scalable, reliable supply of that data — something that will be foundational to the next generation of AI.

There's a lot of AI doomerism in the headlines, and some of it deserves our serious attention. But it’s also more important than ever to tell stories like this: AI is creating a new labor market that's global, fully remote, async, and accessible from just your phone -- allowing new ways for people around the world to make a living. Congrats to @LuelCompanyAI on the $31.2M seed led by @generalcatalyst and @lightspeedvp. Excited to be backing them with @orangecollectv

@orangecollectv @ycombinator @paulg can we do Jerry Garcia as Uncle Sam?

@ycombinator @paulg 🫵

Paul Graham (@paulg) whether founders should move to Silicon Valley, and what it takes to build a startup hub anywhere else. Live from our YC | Stockholm event on April 29, 2026. 01:01 – Why the Big Center Matters 02:45 – The Power of Serendipitous Meetings 04:36 – Investors Move Faster in the Valley 06:03 – Respect Follows the Move 07:59 – The Dropbox Story 09:10 – Measuring Yourself Against Big Fish 12:21 – Silicon Valley's Pay-It-Forward Culture 15:36 – How to Help Stockholm Thrive 17:24 – YC as the Optimal Path 19:54 – Could Stockholm Become The Silicon Valley of Europe?

@billclerico 😅

Claude Code is Farmville for 40 year old former software engineers

dudes that look like this used to start bands now they work at openai

@BlazemasterBlue @DarrellColema20 Watch the tape. Only argument you can make for Draymond being better is defense

@ryanbed @DarrellColema20 Literally all of that is wrong. Draymond demolishes him in every category except maybe scoring.

Put Anthony Mason in today's game, playing with the Warriors of the past 10 years, he'd play the Draymond role better than Draymond. Tell me I'm wrong!

Today, @UseCorgi is announcing a $160M Series B at a $1.3B valuation led by TCV. This new round of funding will help us scale what we've built and expand into new verticals including trucking, payroll, and small business. This follows our $108M Series A that we announced 16 weeks ago, bringing total funding to over $268M.

How many YC startups should you fund per batch? We built the math. Introducing The Unicorn Ratio: a portfolio-construction tool for YC investors.

me as i read 40% of what claude wrote back and type in “continue”

@TrustVanta insane growth, congrats!

$300M ARR. Just 9 months after hitting $200M, and growing faster every quarter.🚀 We founded Vanta to help businesses earn and prove trust. Businesses face more pressure than ever because trust leads to growth in the age of AI. 70% of companies now have Shadow AI operating in their environments, and AI tools are 52% more likely to carry a high risk designation than traditional SaaS. The compliance programs designed for annual audits weren't built for this, and neither was the old way of doing GRC. So we rebuilt it. The Vanta Agent runs as a 24/7 GRC engineer, eliminating the manual work that used to slow security teams down and orchestrating compliance, vendor risk, audits, and more, continuously. The Trust Graph maps your entire security posture in real time, so nothing slips through the cracks between reviews. 16,000 companies now run their security programs on Vanta, including 60% of the Forbes AI 50 and enterprises like Cursor, Samsara, Atlassian, and Snowflake—because the era of proving trust once a year and hoping nothing changes in between is over. To every customer who helped shape what Vanta is today: thank you. 💜 Read more from our CEO Christina: vanta.com/resources/vant…

@finbarr @ycombinator @agupta @snowmaker @garrytan @harjtaggar Congrats!

I've rejoined @ycombinator as a Visiting Partner for S26. Grateful to have been in and around this community for 15+ years, and excited to work alongside @agupta to help founders build something people want. Thank you @snowmaker @garrytan @harjtaggar for the opportunity 🙏

there will this brief era where we can watch our AIs bumble around on the computer clicking things, failing sometimes, taking a ~human amount of time to write code. in the blink of an eye they’ll be manipulating computers far too quickly to monitor

Knowing what to build, for who, and how to get them to use it is actually harder