Reached out to Conway

Livingston says Y Combinator reached out to Conway in its early stages, but wasn’t able to communicate to him what the firm did.

He said, “Is this in Boston? I stick mainly local.” I replied, “No, we’re in Mountain View and we’d love for you to come to Demo Day.” He said, “Is this a chance to invest in the incubator?” I replied, “No, we don’t want you to invest in us. It’s a chance to invest in the individual startups.” Then he told us he’d circle back, since he was jammed. We got the “am jammed now” from Ronco—it was so embarrassing. 

She says Conway did end up coming to Demo Day in 2006, and returned to talk at the next year’s winter event.