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Jessica Livingston, Co-Founder of Y Combinator, on Putting Entrepreneurs First

How Success Happens

CHAPTER

Are You a Programmer?

At the very earliest stages, it is so much more about the founders themselves than the idea. If i had who do i look for when i'm looking to invest in someone? We do like people who can program, ecause ifyo if you can build it yourself, you're just at such an advantage. Soi really wed like to have one programmer on the team, definitely domain experts. Am if there are people who are solving their own problems, i get really excited about that because they just know all the nuances,. and they're building something that they would themselves use.

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