Sorhan

someone made up a story about a yc partner selling batch spots. it was quickly debunked, but it got me thinking about what this place has meant to us, and why it upsets me to see people tear it down @maebert and i went through the batch last fall. they bet on us before there was much evidence to go on, then taught us the unglamorous stuff, like how to talk to customers and how to sell. yc has always worked this way. take unproven people, often without the right schools or resumes, and make them legible to investors worth remembering what seed investing looked like before yc existed. convertible notes sitting as debt on your balance sheet. heavy dilution. technical founders getting swapped out for professional ceos. yc invented the SAFE and dragged the whole ecosystem toward founders, including the founders who never got in. standard capital is doing the same thing to the series a now, and that lineage runs straight back to yc from the outside it looks like an institution. once you’re inside you find it’s just a group of former founders who work absurdly hard on something they could have retired from years ago. they remember what the other side of the table feels like, and it shows we wouldn’t be where we are without them. grateful they exist

@GeniusPothead Absolutely

@sorhanHQ Real founders embrace the chaos and keep pushing through every setback daily

She quit her job with no safety net. Almost homeless. Still chose to build. Sink or swim.

@brycent She’s a beast !!

@sorhanHQ Isa is an amazing founder 👏🏾

@priyanshuV9 Sending it over!

@sorhanHQ ELU

Comment ELU and I’ll DM you early access. One UI for everyone is why most SaaS products churn. We’re building ELU: a self-healing layer for SaaS that analyzes user behavior, segments users by intent + drop-off patterns, and generates different UI experiences for each group

Would you move to SF for 1–2 years to go all-in on startups? Moving to San Francisco might be the highest-leverage decision you make. If you’re coming for the founder scene, get an apartment in the right pocket of the city. Most people don’t drive - you want to be walking

Is most of marketing success just sheer luck? I overheard 4 YC founders last night debating whether marketing is just luck. It’s not. There are timeless psychological laws baked into human nature that act as leverage. In 2026, AI writes the code. Everyone can ship

Are you considering moving to San Francisco? From creating a prototype at the YC hackathon last month and winning first place - to dropping out, raising 250K+ and going full time with his co founders in under 3 weeks and already found users. If there is one thing that’s most

The goal isn’t to be first in the market. It’s to be first in people’s minds. Apple wasn’t the first personal computer. But when you think personal computer, you think Apple. OpenClaw became the first “self-aware” autonomous AI agent people talked about this year. Even

Do you think it’s wise for freshman’s in college to study computer science ? I believe Software engineering has 2 more Years max. And the caravan won’t come

The strongest sales and pitch signals work because they tap into ancient, evolutionary emotions. If you think your product is worth it for others to invest in, it’s your job to sell it to them and do a grand job doing so. Many engineers think too much about logic when it

The vision of humanoid robots battling in boxing rings, made famous by the 2011 film “Real Steel”, is rapidly transitioning from Hollywood fiction to competitive reality. At the forefront of this transformation stands Ultimate Fighting Bots (UFB), a humanoid fighting league that

Most inspiring city in the world. As AI advances, the need for more training data and technicians maintaining robotics will increase

Do you think labor laws will allow this? A growing number of robotics deployments marketed as “automation” are not fully autonomous at all. In several countries, especially Japan, robots used in convenience stores, warehouses, and service roles are remotely monitored or

Do you think this idea deserved 1st place? what the research supports is that emotion/salience systems (e.g., amygdala-centered networks) can react earlier than slower, deliberative prefrontal processing-typically by milliseconds to hundreds of

Are we in a recession? The U.S. is sitting on $38.4T in debt - growing about $6.1B/day - and the cost to carry it is exploding. In 2025, interest alone is around $1.21T (~17% of federal spending), now

Do you think this one deserved 1st place? The idea that won 🥇 place at the 2026 Y Combinator hackathon this year. Lost for words for how simple and replicable this idea is. Goes to show YC is interested in people and their brilliance over complexity of your ideas. ycombinato

Do you think this is a unicorn idea 🦄?

Is it still a good time to study computer science in college given AI is taking over? 🤖