A new essay by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has Silicon Valley leaders debating the extent to which executives should delegate work to their employees–or get down in the muck themselves. Graham ...

Skio, a 2020 Y Combinator alum that was founded by self-described college dropout Kennan Frost, has been acquired by competitor Recharge, the companies announced on Thursday. Both Skio and Recharge ...

SIGN UP for Plaintext and tap Steven's unique insights and unmatched contacts for the long view on tech. Specifically, Graham was moved by Chesky’s confession that during Airbnb’s rise, he listened to ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Y Combinator founders are getting younger and are expected to move faster than ever because of AI, ...

“He acts before the market, trusts before the metrics, and stays through the hard parts,” says One Chowdhury, Co-founder and CEO of Octolane, a self-driving AI CRM that writes, updates, and moves ...

Nothing churns the waters in Silicon Valley like an edgy blog post. Graham cites Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky as the best example of the founder mode mantra in practice. Chesky is a proponent ...

The Founder Mode meme is a suggestion from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham about how big companies should be managed that has since turned into a joke as people debate his thesis. Featured Video It ...

Y Combinator has released its Summer 2026 Requests for Startups (RFS). It covers 15 categories spanning AI, hardware, defense, agriculture, and space. The batch runs July through September in San ...