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Garry Tan has revealed his ‘secret sauce’ for getting into Y Combinator


If you’ve ever wanted to apply to Y Combinator, here’s some inside scoop on how the iconic accelerator goes about choosing companies.

In 2008, Marty Kagan, who’d previously worked at Cisco and Akamai, co-founded Cedexis, a (now-Cisco-owned) firm developing observability tech for content delivery networks. If you’ve been looking forward to seeing Boeing’s Starliner capsule carry two astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. These days every company is trying to figure out if their large language models are compliant with whichever rules they deem important, and with legal or regulatory requirements.

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