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Jessica Livingston is an author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. She also organizes Startup School. Previously, she was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group. She has a B.A. in English from Bucknell University.
In early 2007, Livingston released Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (published by Apress), a collection of interviews with famous startup founders, including Steve Wozniak, Mitch Kapor, Ray Ozzie, and Max Levchin.
In 2008, she married fellow Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham.
In December 2015 it was announced that Livingston is one of the financial backers of OpenAI, a non-profit company aimed at the safe development of artificial general intelligence.
Actors: Erin Gray (actress), Corbin Bernsen (actor), Shawn David Thompson (editor), Laura Zoe Quist (actress), Andrea Parker (actress), Mark Soper (actor), Carla Toutz (actress), Lori Burchfield (miscellaneous crew), Dane Bowman (actor), Raja Collins (actor), Raja Collins (producer), Ines Wurth (actress), Stephanie Portnoy Porter (costume designer), Susan Bishop (writer), Susan Bishop (director),
Plot: Delicate Instruments is the story of 7 intertwining characters that are all a part of a dramatic maze of life, death, sorrow, joy, pain, and redemption. It is the point where passion blurs with madness that we are most alive and sometimes it takes fate to help us understand who and what we really are.
Genres: Drama,Access podcast and transcript versions of this interview here: https://www.ycombinator.com/future/jessica/
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator. She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders. Y Combinator was the first of the new startup "incubators" that fund a bunch of startups at once. Since 2005 YC has funded over 560 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit. For more information visit http://StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind. ***Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. ...
Jessica Livingston speaks at Y Combinator Female Founders Conference 2015. Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator. She is the organizer of Startup School, the annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders. Prior to Y Combinator, she was VP of Marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness, where she managed an award-winning rebranding of the company. Jessica has a BA in English from Bucknell.
Y Combinator partner Jessica Livingston tells GigaOM what they look for in an entrepreneur.
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Jessica Livingston, partner at Y Combinator, at Y Combinator Startup School on October 20, 2012. Presented in Stanford Memorial Auditorium by Y Combinator and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
Y Combinator partners Jessica Livingston, Kat Manalac, Carolynn Levy, and Kirsty Nathoo answer audience questions at the YC 2016 Female Founders Conference in San Francisco, CA
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator. She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders. Y Combinator was the first of the new startup "incubators" that fund a bunch of startups at once. Since 2005 YC has funded over 560 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit. For more information visit http://StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind. ***Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. I...
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator. She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders. Y Combinator was the first of the new startup "incubators" that fund a bunch of startups at once. Since 2005 YC has funded over 560 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit. For more information visit http://StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind. ***Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. I...
Jessica Livingston was always a sister to me and I loved her very much, she was always family to me. We go way back,Back before I was driving, painting, or building custom cars. I will miss Jessica Livingston aka Tweety bird very much. Tweety bird was the nickname we gave her because of her smalls size but she would never be intimidated by anything. Just like the cartoon character. She was a very talented songwriter and singer. She captured the hearts of everyone she came into contact with. Her voice was very powerful and demanded attention whenever Jess picked up a mic. She conquered B.E.T.'s Apollo at a very young age and performed with a ton of the greats in the music industry but Jessica Livingston's greatest talent wasn't her singing it was her heart, always helping whom she could whe...
Foundr Magazine Podcast EP095: What Makes or Breaks a Startup with Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator Dubbed “the world’s most powerful startup incubator” by Fast Company, Y Combinator (YC) has been plucking startups from garages, dorm rooms, coffee shops, and assorted founder hangouts for over a decade. With a combined valuation of more than $65 billion among its alumni, a list that reads like a who’s who of startup fame—think AirBNB, Reddit, Dropbox, Instacart, Scribd, Weebly—YC has become a Silicon Valley institution. It is described as an elite founders boot camp, a place where ideas are incubated, annihilated, refined, and polished for a period of three months, ready to be served up to a bevy of hungry investors. As co-founder of this entrepreneurial playground, Jessica Livin...
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston - Bookjuice review | Book Summary | Book Review How wonderful it would be if you could know what all the gods of silicon valley went through when they were in their early stages. "Founders at Work" is a collection of many short stories that give you an insight to the early stages of many successful entrepreneurs. ----------------------------------------------------------- You can buy it at here: Amazon- http://www.amazon.in/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1590597141 ------------------------------------------------------------- Find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bookjuice-906057942793314/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bookjuicereview Instagram: https://instagram.com/bookjuice.in -------------------------------------------------...
Adora Cheung · Founder, Homejoy Mathilde Collin · Founder, Front Kimberly Bryant · Founder, Black Girls Code Grace Garey · Founder, Watsi Nancy Hua · Founder, Apptimize Susan Johnson · Founder, Women.com Jessica Livingston · Founder, Y Combinator Danielle Morrill · Founder, Mattermark Maran Nelson · Founder, Clara Labs Ruchi Sanghvi · Founder, Cove (acquired by Dropbox) Olga Vidisheva · Founder, Shoptiques Tracy Young · Founder, PlanGrid Are you interested in starting a startup? We'd love to have you at Y Combinator's second Female Founders Conference, where women we've funded, along with distinguished guests, will share their stories and practical advice for building a company. Learn how they got started, what went wrong, what surprised them, and what happened as their compani...
In this discussion, join Y Combinator founding partner Jessica Livingston and YC startup founders Chase Adam (Watsi) and Tracy Young (PlanGrid) for a conversation on how they’ve grown their businesses from innovative ideas to industry arbiters — and what it’s like to grow up inside one of the world’s most important accelerators. Stay connected to our community! Subscribe- http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=gnrlassembly GA Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/gnrlassembly GA Twitter- https://twitter.com/GA GA LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/company/general-assemb-ly GA Online- https://generalassemb.ly/
FounderLine is a live weekly webcast devoted to helping startup founders succeed, hosted by seven-time startup entrepreneur and investor Joe Beninato. Each week, Joe welcomes an experienced entrepreneur or investor to discuss startup-related topics and field questions from entrepreneurs around the world. FounderLine is broadcast live, and viewers are welcome to send questions via email or twitter. For more information, go to founderline.com. In this episode, host Joe Beninato and guest Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator answer viewer questions including: - What are some definitive steps that founders can take to define a lasting culture for their startups? - If you were to name a few of the common attributes of the unicorns that have come through YC, what would they be? - How do you keep ...
Author Jessica Livingston discusses her book "Founders At Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days" as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place on April 19, 2007, at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters.
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