Highlight Reel: Everything You Need to Know From Black Founders Twitter AMA with Y Combinator Partner Michael Seibel
Yesterday we had a Twitter AMA with Y Combinator partner and entrepreneur Michael Seibel. Michael is the former founder and CEO of Justin.tv (acquired by Amazon as Twitch.com) and Socialcam (acquired by Autodesk).
Here are some highlights from our conversation.
“Its not a talent issue, tons of minority talent — its an information and access issue.” — Michael Seibel, Partner — Y Combinator
On Applying to Y Combinator
On the application video
On ‘Why Y Combinator?’
On Y Combinator batch sizes
On investment in competitive startups
On technical co-founders
“The opportunity to start the next google should be open to all.”
On Minority Talent
On minorities in the tech pipeline
On minority computer science majors
On Y Combinator and diversity
On minority entrepreneurs
“…it’s hard to convince others to back you if you aren’t all in.”
On Starting a Startup
On going from small to big
On storytelling and investor buy-in
“I think it is so much easier to do tech here [the Bay Area] — I’d say move”
On minorities raising outside of Silicon Valley
On international startups
Y Combinator applications are due March 27 by 8pm PST Apply now.
