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The Social Radar: What I Did at Y Combinator - Jessica Livingston

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Culture matters for startups. For a startup to succeed, it must have a culture that reflects what it wants to achieve. This is one of my areas of expertise. I've spent the past decade focusing on Y Combinator's culture. Here I'm going to tell you what I did and what I learned.

Culture matters for startups. For a startup to succeed, it must have a culture that reflects what it wants to achieve. This is one of my areas of expertise. I've spent the past decade focusing on Y Combinator's culture. Here I'm going to tell you what I did and what I learned. People and culture have played an important role at Y Combinator from the very beginning. And I was the one responsible for these things from the very beginning. Most people don't know this–both because I prefer to operate in the background and because culture is not as visible to the outside world as what a company does

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