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Revision as of 15:53, 18 June 2019
This is a timeline of FIXME.
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Big picture
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Full timeline
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2005 | March 1 | Y Combinator is founded by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell and Robert Tappan Morris.[1].[2] | |
2009 | January | Y Combinator announces that the Cambridge program would be closed and all future programs would take place in Silicon Valley.[3] | |
2010 | Early year | "In early 2010, Harj Taggar joined as an advisor" | |
2010 | September | Alexis Ohanian joins Y Combinator.[4] | |
2010 | November | Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar are named partners.[5] | |
2011 | January | Yuri Milner starts automatically backing all Y Combinator companies, with each start-up receiving US$150,000 from Milner and investor Ron Conway.[6][7] | |
2011 | January | Garry Tan joins Y Combinator, first as designer-in-residence and later as partner.[8][9] | |
2011 | Aaron Iba joins as a partner.[10] | ||
2013 | September | Paul Graham announces Y Combinator would fund nonprofit organizations accepted into its program after having tested the concept with Watsi (while continuing to fund mostly for-profit startups).[11] | |
2014 | February | Paul Graham announces Sam Altman would take over as President of Y Combinator.[12] | |
2015 | May | Taggar leaves Y Combinator.[13] | |
2015 | July | Y Combinator introduces the YC Fellowship Program aimed at companies at an earlier stage than the main program.[14] | |
2015 | October | Y Combinator introduces the YC Continuity Fund. The fund allows Y Combinator to make pro rata investments in their alumni companies with valuations under US$300 million. Y Combinator also considers leading or participating in later stage growth financing rounds for YC companies.[15] | |
2015 | October | YC introduces YC Research to fund long-term fundamental research. YC President Sam Altman donates US$ 10million.[16] | |
2015 | November | Garry Tan leaves Y Combinator.[9] | |
2016 | August 11 | Y Combinator announces that YC partners would be visiting 11 countries during the fall to meet with founders and learn more about how they can be helpful to international startup communities. These 11 countries are Nigeria, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Israel, and India.[17][18] | |
2019 | March | It is reported that Y Combinator would be moving headquarters to San Francisco.[19] | |
2019 | May 20 | Y Combinator announces Geoff Ralston as new President of YC.[20] Meanwhile, Sam Altman would be transitioning to Chairman to spend more time focusing on Open AI.[21][22] |
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References
- ↑ Graham, Paul (March 15, 2012). "How Y Combinator Started". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ "Y Combinator". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Graham, Paul (January 2009). "California Year-Round". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 (2010-09-01). "Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ↑ Graham, Paul (2010-11-12). "Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar". Y Combinator Posterous. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Arrington, Michael. "Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ "Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Melanson, Mike (2011-01-14). "Posterous Co-Founder Garry Tan Leaves for Y Combinator". Readwriteweb.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Former Y Combinator Partner Garry Tan on What Too Many Startups Get Wrong". Fortune. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Tan, Garry (January 23, 2012). "Welcome Garry and Aaron". Y Combinator Posthaven. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Ken Yeung (6 September 2013). "Y Combinator To Fund Non-Profit Startups With Charitable Donations". The Next Web. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Graham, Paul (February 21, 2014). "Sam Altman for President". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Former YC Partner Harj Taggar Is Building The New Technical Hiring Pipeline With TripleByte (May 7, 2015), Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch
- ↑ Loizos, Connie (July 20, 2015). "Y Combinator Just Introduced a New Program to Reach Up to "1,000" Companies Per Year". TechCrunch. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Altman, Sam (October 15, 2015). "YC Continuity". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Altman, Sam (October 7, 2015). "YC Research". Y Combinator Posthaven. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Manalac, Kat. "YC Office Hours in 11 Countries This Fall". Y Combinator Posthaven. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Modgil, Shweta. "YCombinator Is Coming To India This September; Here's Why You Should Be Excited". Inc 42. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Kawamoto, Dawn (March 11, 2019). "Venture capital powerhouse is latest Silicon Valley firm to open San Francisco office". www.bizjournals.com. San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Altman, Sam. "Geoff Ralston for President". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ↑ Combinator, Y. "Updates from YC". Y Combinator. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ↑ "Y Combinator president Sam Altman steps down to focus on OpenAI". VentureBeat. 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-05-27.