Jessica Livingston

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Jessica Livingston is the author of the website foundersatwork.posthaven.com. The metadata indicates that she is prominently featured as the title and description of the site, suggesting her significant involvement or authorship. The site appears to be related to her work or interests, as it is named after her.

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foundersatwork.posthaven.com

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Entrepreneur

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2025-05-23 • career startup ecosystem ambition rejection

Jessica Livingston shares her experience and advice with the Class of 2025, encouraging them to be more ambitious and to actively figure out which career path is best for them. She emphasizes the importance of reinventing oneself ...

2021-11-18 • startup user engagement y combinator

Jessica Livingston discusses the importance of thinking differently as a startup founder, emphasizing the need to prioritize user satisfaction over conventional wisdom. She shares her experience with Y Combinator and highlights th...

2020-11-21 • startup entrepreneurship women in business

Jessica Livingston gave a talk at Y Combinator's Future Founders Conference for women, focusing on advice for startups in the earliest stages. She emphasized the importance of choosing cofounders carefully, having determination, d...

2019-03-22 • programming startup hacker events women in business

Jessica Livingston started the Summer Hackers Program to help young people, especially women, break into the startup world by learning to program. She observed that many female founders are held back because they can't program and...

2019-03-22 • programming startup education women

Jessica Livingston is offering 40 women $9000 stipends to cover their living expenses while they take Lambda School's programming course. The 15-week program is designed to fit during the summer break and is open to any woman in t...

2018-06-30 • technology investing strategies and insights startup entrepreneurship venture capital

Jessica Livingston, co-founder of Y Combinator, shares her story of how she became involved in the startup world. She discusses her background, her role in Y Combinator, and the qualities that made her well-suited for the job. She...

2018-04-26 • finance startup equity

The post discusses the concept of equity as an alternative way to make money besides salary. It explains how equity works, who can get it, and how to predict the success of a startup. The author emphasizes that equity is a risky b...

2017-06-29 • startup ecosystem unicorn female founders

Jessica Livingston's talk at the Female Founders Conference 2017 focuses on the differences between successful and super-successful startups, and the qualities needed to start a startup that's not merely successful, but massively ...

2017-05-01 • technology innovation journalism startup y combinator

Jessica Livingston reflects on the early days of Y Combinator, sharing a pitch letter she sent to journalists in 2005. She discusses the Summer Founders Program and the innovative aspects of Y Combinator, highlighting the freedom ...

2017-01-13 • success opinions discussion ideas miscommunication

The author discusses the downside of sharing opinions and ideas publicly, especially for successful people, due to the risk of misinterpretation and attacks. She emphasizes the loss of valuable insights and conversations when powe...

2016-11-06 • donald trump california voting systems clinton

The author shares her regret for not voting in the last presidential election due to being too busy, and emphasizes the importance of voting in the upcoming election, especially due to the high stakes. She expresses her hope for H...

2015-07-25 • productivity innovation startup ecosystem founders

The text is a concentrated summary of the book 'Founders at Work' by Jessica Livingston, which shares the stories of startup founders and the patterns she noticed. The main points include the importance of perseverance, adaptabili...

2015-07-13 • investors fundraising startup ecosystem perseverance rejection airbnb

The text discusses the rejection emails from Airbnb's early days shared by Brian Chesky and highlights 7 important lessons that these rejections remind the author of, including the difficulty of fundraising, the initial troubles f...

2015-06-17 • startup marketing sales product design

The article discusses the importance of sales over marketing for early-stage startups. It emphasizes the need for narrow and deep outreach to a small number of interested users, rather than broad and shallow marketing efforts.

2015-04-29 • management funding fundraising startup recruitment acquisition film criticism

The text discusses the dangers that mid-stage startups face, including the traps of feeling that you can relax, spending too much after raising money, hiring too fast, not firing people when needed, and the challenges of raising s...

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2015-03-04 • culture startup investment advice founders

Jessica Livingston shares her experience of focusing on Y Combinator's culture for the past decade, explaining the importance of culture for startups and how she has contributed to creating a unique culture at YC. She discusses he...

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2014-10-13 • event management silicon valley entrepreneurship

Jessica Livingston reflects on her experience with Startup School, an event that has remained authentic and unchanged for a decade, despite the growth in audience and minor logistical improvements. She highlights the fundamental g...

2014-09-08 • startup ecosystem gender pay gap female founders

Twitter recently allowed users to see data about their followers, revealing a significant gender imbalance among people interested in startups. The author discusses the need to address the lack of interest among women in startups ...