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Early Photos of Y Combinator

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Thanks to the magic of Snapjoy I was able to upload and organize (or rather, have organized for me) thousands of pictures that had been sitting around for years on flash memory cards. Among them were some early pictures of Y Combinator. 11 March 2005 Jessica and I decided to start Y Combinator as we were walking home from dinner on March 11. Of course what we decided to start was a lot less ambitious than YC is now. Jessica and I agreed that I'd put up $100k to fund a summer program for undergrads to start startups, and she'd quit her job to work for a new company we'd start to run it. We recruited Rtm and Trevor the next day. Jessica was so excited to be quitting to work on this new idea that I took her picture to commemorate it. 29 March 2005 Trevor sitting in my house in Cambridge reading applications. At first people applied by filling out an ascii form and emailing it to us. We'd print out all the emails and grade them by hand, like exams. We got more applications for that first b

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