My experiences have led me to become a group partner at Y Combinator, where I find joy in helping founders overcome challenges to bring their technologies to market.

I left Google in September 2022 to join Y Combinator, where I could work closely with founders and help them avoid the mistakes I made in my own journey.

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.

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.

I'm Romain Huet, and I work on developer experience at OpenAI, focusing on making developers feel delighted and inspired by our tools.

I'm Bihan, and I lead product at Decagon, a Series B startup building AI agents for customer service and support use cases.

After being encouraged by founders like Drew Houston and Sam Altman, I applied to Y Combinator, despite my initial hesitation about giving up equity.

At Y Combinator, we advise against starting with a solution in search of a problem. Instead, focus on identifying real problems that need solving, which will lead to more efficient growth.

I love Y Combinator and New York for startups, which is why I'm here today.