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Diane Greene

08/09/17

@ Y Combinator

Before my startups, I built technology inside larger companies, including developing asynchronous input/output software that outperformed major database companies.

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Diane Greene's Advice for Founders

@ Y Combinator

08/09/17

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Theodoric Chew

04/21/25

@ EO

After exiting my first company, I spent time working at startups and venture builders to gain experience and learn from faster-growing companies.

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Mathilde Collin

10/25/18

@ Y Combinator

Working at a small startup helped me discover my passion for software, as I found it rewarding to build something that could change how people work.

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Thomas Dohmke

04/09/25

@ EO

I started developing software in the early 1990s and now lead GitHub, the largest developer platform in the world.

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Diane Greene

08/09/17

@ Y Combinator

I co-founded and was the CEO of three startups, starting with V-Extreme in 1995, where we developed low bandwidth streaming video technology that was sold to Microsoft for $75 million in 1997.

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Werner Vogels

11/12/18

@ Y Combinator

I was an academic before I joined Amazon, working as a research scientist at Cornell for 10 years, focusing on large-scale distributed systems and doing startups on the side.

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Guillermo Rauch

06/03/25

@ Accel

When I started my company, I wanted to begin with open source foundations, focusing on real-time web applications and making things fast.

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Reed Hastings

02/24/24

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

My first company, Pure Software, taught me that hard work alone isn't enough; I lacked business sophistication and faced internal chaos despite having excellent products.

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Mark Zuckerberg

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

In college, I wanted to create products that connected me with the community around me, which led to the realization that I needed to build software that others would use too.

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Nico Rosberg

05/30/25

@ All-In Podcast

I'm excited about investments in companies like Applied Intuition, which provides software to legacy car manufacturers transitioning to a software-first approach.