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Y Combinator
Profile Bios
YouTube
Videos to help you build a successful startup. Subscribe for startup advice, founder stories, and a look inside Y Combinator.
What is Y Combinator?
We invest $500,000 in every startup and work intensively with the founders for three months. For the life of their company, founders have access to the most powerful community in the world, essential advice, later-stage funding and programs, recruiting resources, and exclusive deals.
Visit ycombinator.com to learn more.
Video Team:
Zach Both - Video and Content Lead
Ryan Loughlin - Senior Producer
Twitter/X
We help founders make something people want.
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://t.co/sjqjxxBeLc
Funding startups since 2005
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This is Y Combinator's profile photo consistency across the legit accounts tracked by NotCommon. Scammers often take advantage of the lack of consistency across an entity's accounts, so the more profile photos are the same, the better.
Username Distribution
ycombinator (5)
y-combinator (1)
This is Y Combinator's username distribution across the platforms tracked by NotCommon. Low username variation makes it more difficult for impersonators and scammers to create accounts pretending to be Y Combinator.
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