Back in 2005, Y Combinator was eager for people to attend the first Startup School, which aimed to provide early-stage founders with insights from their peers.

This is the first Startup School in New York City, a place that has greatly influenced me.

The first Startup School was designed to be free and accessible, attracting serious builders and avoiding the pretentiousness of other startup events.

I found Y Combinator because I was on Reddit during graduate school, where I discovered Paul Graham's essays that inspired me to pursue starting a company, despite the prevailing belief that the web was over after the dot-com crash.

After being rejected by Y Combinator with their initial idea, we were invited to join the program under the condition that we work on something else, which led to the creation of Reddit.

Reddit was founded in 2005 by college roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, initially as a mobile food ordering app idea, but it evolved into a platform for sharing and discussing topics.

Investor School is a four-day course teaching the basics of startup investing, held for the first time at Y Combinator in Mountain View.

While at Stanford, I took a class called Startup Engineering, which emphasized practical skills needed to start a business, rather than just high-level theories.

I co-founded Y Combinator, the first startup accelerator, which began with a hypothesis about what people wanted, and it turned out they did want it, leading us to fund over 1,800 startups valued at over a hundred billion dollars.