Startup School talk
Altman tells the Y Combinator event that technical understanding is key to getting a startup funded:
Technical founders…if you can understand what the product should be and how to build it, you are a force to be reckoned with
PreMoney speech
Altman tells the investing conference that Y Combinator is going to continue its scale. Its focus:
The sort of core belief that there are a lot more people that could be starting these huge [startup companies] and that YC can help them and that we can give them this huge advantage and…help connect them to people
First Startup School lecture
Altman delivers the first lecture:
…if you try to do these things in a lot of big companies or non-startups, it won’t work.