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Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator

The Social Radars

CHAPTER

The Last Y Combinator Batch in Cambridge

YC Summer08 was the batch that Lehman died, where Lehman Brothers literally crashed. I remember trying to get through a summer in Cambridge without an AC unit and I think we lasted about like four days or something. To this day, if you look at the batches, Summer08 is actually the least successful batch in history.

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