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The humble beginnings of YCombinator

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Y Combinator: A Slow Moving VC Firm

Y Combinator's first batch of startups was just eight companies in the Boston, Cambridge area. Paul Graham would put up the first $100,000 in capital and Jessica would quit her job to focus on the program full time. In that first batch were Sam Altman, who started Looped,. Reddit was in that first batch, Kiko, which was started by the founders who went on to start Justin.tv, aka Twitch.

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