Top Stories from the YC World – September 25 to October 2, 2015
YC Fall 2015 College Tour: Next week we’ll be at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford!
The 20 Minute VC podcast interviews YC partner Aaron Harris
Can Y Combinator find its next ‘unicorn’ in a hardware startup? – Fortune interviews YC’s Luke Iseman and Michael Seibel
Essays
I and We by Aaron Harris
Airbnb and San Francisco by Sam Altman
YC Alumni News and Launches
Instacart (W12) hires Ravi Gupta as its first CFO
Watsi (W13) co-founder Grace Carey profiled in the Huffington Post
Eden (S15) launches an on-demand tech support product aimed at businesses
Triplebyte (S15) raises $3 million
Upverter (S11) launches ‘Parts Concierce,’ a Github for hardware
Goldman Sachs highlights EquipmentShare (W15), TradeBlock (W14), and Yhat (W14) in research note
Naytev (S14) launches Spark, a ‘dark testing’ social media tool for publishers