The Lobster Talks Podcast

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42.9 hours of content
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The Lobster Talks Podcast

Are you a founder sick of the same old startup advice? About the Show Get the inside scoop on building a successful startup! The Lobster Talks Podcast delivers no-nonsense, battle-tested strategies and advice directly from founders who've made it happen. This is your weekly dose of real-world startup wisdom. In Each Episode You'll Discover: Fundraising strategies that go beyond the textbook Secrets to overcoming common growth obstacles Hard-earned lessons to save you time and money Actionable startup tactics you can use today Who Should Listen: Founders ready to accelerate their startup journey Entrepreneurs eager to learn from those who've been there Anyone seeking the unfiltered truth about startup life Subscribe to The Lobster Talks Podcast and join us every Friday for a fresh dose of startup survival tactics. Follow Lobster Capital on your favorite social channels for bonus insights and exclusive updates! ABOUT GABRIEL JARROSSON Gabriel Jarrosson is a seasoned investor and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in the startup space and the General Partner of Lobster Capital. He has invested over $25M in Y Combinator startups. Having sold three of his own startups, he shares his expertise in his books "My Investor Secrets" and "Investing in Startups: x100 or Nothing." CONNECT WITH GABRIEL JARROSSON Website → https://www.lobstercap.com/ LinkedIn →   / gabrieljarrosson   Instagram →   / lobstercapital   Stay ahead of the game with the latest startup insights. Subscribe to our newsletter for startup updates and actionable insights → https://lobstercap.ck.page/c34c61a155

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Welcome to The Lobster Talks Podcast by Lobster Capital

Welcome to The Lobster Talks Podcast by Lobster Capital

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BoldVoice: Perfect Your Accent with an AI Coach | Startup Story | Ep 1
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BoldVoice: Perfect Your Accent with an AI Coach | Startup Story | Ep 1

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Event Payment Nightmares? Meet the Startup That Fixes It - The Maroo Story | Episode 2
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Event Payment Nightmares? Meet the Startup That Fixes It - The Maroo Story | Episode 2

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Siglo: Can You Build Customer Loyalty Without Contracts? This YC Startup Did It in LatAm | Episode 3
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Siglo: Can You Build Customer Loyalty Without Contracts? This YC Startup Did It in LatAm | Episode 3

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Trayd: Same-Day Pay to 7 Million Construction Workers in the US? This YC Startup did this! | Ep 4
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Trayd: Same-Day Pay to 7 Million Construction Workers in the US? This YC Startup did this! | Ep 4

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Middleware - From Being Rejected 5 Times to $6.5M Seed: This YC Founder Solved His Own Problem| Ep 5
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Middleware - From Being Rejected 5 Times to $6.5M Seed: This YC Founder Solved His Own Problem| Ep 5

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Pana: No SSN? No Problem! This YC Fintech Startup is Banking the Unbanked Hispanics | Episode 6
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Pana: No SSN? No Problem! This YC Fintech Startup is Banking the Unbanked Hispanics | Episode 6

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PointOne: Tired of Manually Tracking Time? This YC Startup Automates It for Lawyers | Episode 7
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PointOne: Tired of Manually Tracking Time? This YC Startup Automates It for Lawyers | Episode 7

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Celest - How to Build Apps for ANY Screen (Yes, Even THAT One) Founder's Y Combinator Story | Ep 8
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Celest - How to Build Apps for ANY Screen (Yes, Even THAT One) Founder's Y Combinator Story | Ep 8

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FanCave: Can Superfans Recruit College Athletes? This YC Startup Says Yes | Episode 9
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FanCave: Can Superfans Recruit College Athletes? This YC Startup Says Yes | Episode 9

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Luca: How to Maximize your profit using AI? THIS startup has the copilot your retail business needs!
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Luca: How to Maximize your profit using AI? THIS startup has the copilot your retail business needs!

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OpenMeter - Scale Your AI & API Startup with Open-Source Usage Metering (Y Combinator Startup)|Ep 11
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OpenMeter - Scale Your AI & API Startup with Open-Source Usage Metering (Y Combinator Startup)|Ep 11

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Why AI Metering Needs to Be Real Time AND Accurate

Why AI Metering Needs to Be Real Time AND Accurate

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Common Paper - Founder Reveals How He Simplified Startup Contracts & Built a Sellable Business |Ep12
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Common Paper - Founder Reveals How He Simplified Startup Contracts & Built a Sellable Business |Ep12

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Elodin - The Future of Aerospace Flight Software? Conversation with YC Founder Daniel Driscoll |Ep13
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Elodin - The Future of Aerospace Flight Software? Conversation with YC Founder Daniel Driscoll |Ep13

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Saatvy - Is Pivoting Always the Right Move? A YC Founder's Story from AI to Ayurveda
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Saatvy - Is Pivoting Always the Right Move? A YC Founder's Story from AI to Ayurveda

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Inside the Mind of a Top 1% Exiter: FinTech Isn't Dead, Y Combinator Then & Now w/ Daniel Kivatinos
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Inside the Mind of a Top 1% Exiter: FinTech Isn't Dead, Y Combinator Then & Now w/ Daniel Kivatinos

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Astroforge: This Startup Is Mining Asteroids! And Are Making It Low-Cost, Hear From CEO Matt Gialich
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Astroforge: This Startup Is Mining Asteroids! And Are Making It Low-Cost, Hear From CEO Matt Gialich

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The Elon Musk Tweet Notification That Launched a No Code A/B testing Startup - Just Words Story
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The Elon Musk Tweet Notification That Launched a No Code A/B testing Startup - Just Words Story

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Is this the future of American manufacturing? Dime -  the "Central Nervous System" for Factories
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Is this the future of American manufacturing? Dime - the "Central Nervous System" for Factories

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Coba: Simplifying Cross-Border Payments for Latin America | Y Combinator  Story with Eduardo de Leon
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Coba: Simplifying Cross-Border Payments for Latin America | Y Combinator Story with Eduardo de Leon

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Why Y Combinator Startups Outperform Traditional Investments (Real Estate, Stocks, Gold)
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Why Y Combinator Startups Outperform Traditional Investments (Real Estate, Stocks, Gold)

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Co-Founder's Dilemma & The Unconscious Mind: Conversations on Startup Leadership w/ Torch Founders
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Co-Founder's Dilemma & The Unconscious Mind: Conversations on Startup Leadership w/ Torch Founders

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Y Combinator Secrets: How To Find & Invest on Startups Like a Pro | Baubap Case Study
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Y Combinator Secrets: How To Find & Invest on Startups Like a Pro | Baubap Case Study

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AI Meets EEG: How This Y Combinator Startup is Decoding Brainwaves - The Piramidal Story | Ep 23
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AI Meets EEG: How This Y Combinator Startup is Decoding Brainwaves - The Piramidal Story | Ep 23

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From Art History to AI Exit: How This YC Founder Sold Her Startup to Masterworks
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From Art History to AI Exit: How This YC Founder Sold Her Startup to Masterworks

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YC's Evolution: S24 Demo Day, AI's Impact, 4 Batches a Year, & B2B Rise
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YC's Evolution: S24 Demo Day, AI's Impact, 4 Batches a Year, & B2B Rise

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Debunking misconceptions about Y Combinator

Debunking misconceptions about Y Combinator

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Y Combinator's Fall 2024 Demo Day: Analyzing the Shift Back to In-Person
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Y Combinator's Fall 2024 Demo Day: Analyzing the Shift Back to In-Person

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Powering the Future: Valentin on Batteries and Ionworks

Powering the Future: Valentin on Batteries and Ionworks

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From a $3M Seed to $100M+ in Revenue: The AI-Powered Fintech Unicorn Story
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From a $3M Seed to $100M+ in Revenue: The AI-Powered Fintech Unicorn Story

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YC in 2025: 4 Batches, AI’s Rapid Rise, and Europe’s Next Moves
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YC in 2025: 4 Batches, AI’s Rapid Rise, and Europe’s Next Moves

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From Scrappy MVP to AI-Driven Success: Jiga’s Journey to Transform Manufacturing
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From Scrappy MVP to AI-Driven Success: Jiga’s Journey to Transform Manufacturing

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From 150K in Revenue to a Bold Pivot: How YC Founder Jason Fan Rewrote His Startup Playbook
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From 150K in Revenue to a Bold Pivot: How YC Founder Jason Fan Rewrote His Startup Playbook

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YC’s Rapid-Fire Request For Startups: How AI Is Reshaping Tech Investing & Innovation
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YC’s Rapid-Fire Request For Startups: How AI Is Reshaping Tech Investing & Innovation

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Wayne Crosby’s Startup Journey | From Google Slides to YC Partner & Beyond | The Lobster Talks
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Wayne Crosby’s Startup Journey | From Google Slides to YC Partner & Beyond | The Lobster Talks

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How AI Is Automating Carbon Compliance | Offstream’s YC-Backed Solution | The Lobster Talks
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How AI Is Automating Carbon Compliance | Offstream’s YC-Backed Solution | The Lobster Talks

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From Founder to Investor | Why This 3x Entrepreneur Returned as CEO | The Lobster Talks
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From Founder to Investor | Why This 3x Entrepreneur Returned as CEO | The Lobster Talks

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Building an Open Source Unicorn: Michel Tricot of Airbyte on Community, Challenges, and the Future
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Building an Open Source Unicorn: Michel Tricot of Airbyte on Community, Challenges, and the Future

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Inside YC’s Record-Breaking Demo Day: AI Startups Hitting $50M Profits at Launch!
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Inside YC’s Record-Breaking Demo Day: AI Startups Hitting $50M Profits at Launch!

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Building Data Centers in Space?! Starcloud’s Mission to Revolutionize Compute
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Building Data Centers in Space?! Starcloud’s Mission to Revolutionize Compute

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YC Investing Secrets Revealed: Navigating Uncertainty in 2025
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YC Investing Secrets Revealed: Navigating Uncertainty in 2025

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From (almost) Homeless to $1B in LOIs: Building Space Hardware with $2
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From (almost) Homeless to $1B in LOIs: Building Space Hardware with $2

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The Future of Zero Gravity Manufacturing | Stef from Reditus Space
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The Future of Zero Gravity Manufacturing | Stef from Reditus Space

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They Shrunk a Particle Accelerator 1,000× to Beat ASML — Inside Inversion Semiconductor’s Moonshot
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They Shrunk a Particle Accelerator 1,000× to Beat ASML — Inside Inversion Semiconductor’s Moonshot

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Stop Blaming LLMs: ZeroEntropy’s Founder on Killing AI Hallucinations & Building ‘Impossible’ Search
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Stop Blaming LLMs: ZeroEntropy’s Founder on Killing AI Hallucinations & Building ‘Impossible’ Search

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YC’s AI Agent Blitz: Why “Full-Stack” Startups Are the Next Gold Rush 🚀
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YC’s AI Agent Blitz: Why “Full-Stack” Startups Are the Next Gold Rush 🚀

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Vibe Coding: Will AI Replace Designers & Engineers by 2027?
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Vibe Coding: Will AI Replace Designers & Engineers by 2027?

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90% Lose Debt Lawsuits — He Built the Fix
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90% Lose Debt Lawsuits — He Built the Fix

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YC Spring 25 : Is This the Best Batch Ever? X25 Demo Day Highlights
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YC Spring 25 : Is This the Best Batch Ever? X25 Demo Day Highlights

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From YC to Viral: Prady's Wild AI Video Bet & the Future of Video Editing
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From YC to Viral: Prady's Wild AI Video Bet & the Future of Video Editing

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Self-Improving Voice Bots: Replacing 100 Agents with AI
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Self-Improving Voice Bots: Replacing 100 Agents with AI

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Building the AI Insurance Giant From Scratch
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Building the AI Insurance Giant From Scratch

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Reinventing Email with AI - This YC Startup Might Replace Gmail
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Reinventing Email with AI - This YC Startup Might Replace Gmail

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From Dorm Room to a MILLION Users — The YouLearn Story with David Yu
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From Dorm Room to a MILLION Users — The YouLearn Story with David Yu

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Why Top Funds Are Panicking About YC Startups
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Why Top Funds Are Panicking About YC Startups

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The First AI Cofounder? How Woz is Changing Startups
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The First AI Cofounder? How Woz is Changing Startups

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#1 Trending on GitHub: The Open Source Playbook by Daniel Farrell of Onlook
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#1 Trending on GitHub: The Open Source Playbook by Daniel Farrell of Onlook

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Killing the Timeline: Mosaic’s Bold Future for Video Editing
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Killing the Timeline: Mosaic’s Bold Future for Video Editing

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Inside YC’s Boldest RFS Yet: AI, Agents & More
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Inside YC’s Boldest RFS Yet: AI, Agents & More

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The Startup Who Tested Reality Before Launch
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The Startup Who Tested Reality Before Launch

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The 32-Second Advantage: truemetrics vs. Google Maps
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The 32-Second Advantage: truemetrics vs. Google Maps

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YC Demo Day: What Happens Off-Stage
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YC Demo Day: What Happens Off-Stage

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Garry Tan Invited Him Into YC
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Garry Tan Invited Him Into YC

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The Most Overlooked Startup From YC S25
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The Most Overlooked Startup From YC S25

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