Michael Seibel

@mwseibel

CEO, Partner at Y Combinator michael@ycombinator.com

San Francisco
Joined March 2007

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  1. Jan 27

    The YC admissions team is hiring a data scientist. Apply here:

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  2. Jan 26

    I bet it takes 100+ years (or a lot of luck) to craft a deep, clear, meaningful, and understandable message in 240 characters. Double that if the message on a controversial topic.

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  3. Jan 26

    I always found this saying to be true:

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  4. Jan 26

    Using tweets to share your thoughts sometimes feels like using a candle to cook a turkey. I often find myself starting to write a tweet and then switching to an essay, video, or podcast.

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  5. Jan 24

    Starting a live Startup School AMA in a couple mins. Click the link to join :)

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 23
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  7. Retweeted

    Huge thanks to everyone that came out to ‘s YC meetup in SF last week! Had a really great time connecting with , , our family, and everyone else who came out 🦋

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  8. Jan 19

    What pains me is that at any given time I’m probably failing at this goal with one or more people. I apologize if that is or has ever been you.

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  9. Jan 19

    There is an important person in my life who doesn’t treat me the way I would like to be treated. This hurts. Every time I’m reminded of this, it motivates me to try very hard to not be that person in someone else life.

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  10. Jan 17

    This is something that all startup founders should pay attention to. Airbnb is exploring a new model of what it means to be a 21st century technology company.

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  11. Jan 17

    Developing a new habit of reading content that will make me better at my job in the morning and before I go to sleep. This often results in me tweeting an interesting quote that I’ve read.

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  12. Jan 16

    Great quote from : "A ... problem that I see a lot is premature scaling—founders take a small business that isn't really working... and then scale it up because they want impressive growth numbers.“

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  14. Jan 15

    It’s really nice to know who you are talking to.

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  15. Jan 15

    Anon accounts are an interesting phenomenon on Twitter. Some are great but I do wonder how much better my Twitter experience would be if I had the ability to hide them.

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  16. Jan 15

    Every once in a while I think to myself: it would be so great to create an anonymous Twitter account and rage reply to a Tweet I don’t like. Then I think: Michael grow up and get back to living your life.

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  17. Jan 15

    This is a great job opportunity at YC. Join our admissions team as our first admissions data scientist.

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  18. Jan 15

    ... versus a situation that's not working and additional effort is a destructive waste of time and radical change is necessary.” This is the central challenge for almost every early stage YC founder.

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  19. Jan 15

    Rereading blog pmarca by . “entrepreneurial judgment is the ability to tell the difference between a situation that's not working but persistence and iteration will ultimately prove it out...

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  20. Jan 14

    Does SF have problems that need to be solved? Of course!!! Is it the festering hellhole that some on twitter make it out to be... nope.

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