Company · Venture Capital
Y Combinator
Startup accelerator. Sam Altman's Loopt was in its first batch, and he later served as its president from 2014 to 2019.
Of the 9 people here linked to Y Combinator, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 2 of them also appear at Reddit. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
9 people at Y Combinator
Executive Past
Role
Partner (2011), president (2014), president of YC Group (2016), 2011–2019
Source
· high confidence
Artificial Intelligence · Venture Capital 2 / 2
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI; former president, Y Combinator
affluent professional · elite · some college
Advisor Past
Role
Part-time partner, 2015–2017
Source
· medium confidence. Joined in March 2015; the end of the relationship was reported in November 2017.
Technology · Venture Capital · Software 2 / 2
Peter Thiel
Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies; co-founder of Founders Fund; Facebook's first outside investor
professional-immigrant · elite · graduate degree
Employee Past
Role
Partner ("Ambassador to the East"), part-time then full-time
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia dates the role to roughly 2010-2016 ("c."); exact years not stated, so left out.
Technology · Software · Venture Capital 3 / 0
Alexis Ohanian
Co-founder of Reddit; co-founder of Initialized Capital and founder of Seven Seven Six (776)
middle-class · some · college degree
Alumnus Past
Role
Y Combinator Summer 2016 batch, with Scale AI, 2016
Also at
Source
· high confidence. The Y Combinator company page lists the Summer 2016 batch.
Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Software 2 / 1
Alexandr Wang
Co-founder and former CEO of Scale AI; Chief AI Officer at Meta, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs
professional-class · well-connected · some college
Alumnus Past
Technology 3 / 1
Brian Chesky
Cofounder and CEO, Airbnb
middle-class · some · college degree
Alumnus Past
Role
Y Combinator Summer 2007 batch, with Dropbox, 2007
Also at
Source
· high confidence. The Y Combinator company page lists the Summer 2007 batch.
Technology · Software 2 / 0
Drew Houston
Co-founder of Dropbox; CEO 2007-2026, now executive chairman
comfortable · some · college degree
Alumnus Past
Role
Y Combinator Summer 2009 batch, with Stripe, 2009
Source
· high confidence. The Y Combinator company page lists the Summer 2009 batch.
Finance · Technology · Software 2 / 1
Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe
comfortable · some · some college
Connected companies
Other companies that share profiled people with Y Combinator.
Reddit
2 shared: Alexis Ohanian, Sam Altman
Airbnb
1 shared: Sam Altman
Angel City FC
1 shared: Alexis Ohanian
Founders Fund
1 shared: Peter Thiel
Helion Energy
1 shared: Sam Altman
Meta Platforms
1 shared: Peter Thiel
OpenAI
1 shared: Sam Altman
Palantir Technologies
1 shared: Peter Thiel
PayPal
1 shared: Peter Thiel
Stripe
1 shared: Sam Altman