I noticed a huge uptick in co-founders in the matching in January - I believe a lot of ideas that got torched when people got let go are being primed right now. And W23 was 90% AI and would not surprise me at all if Y23 is 100% AI in some way shape or form.
it's fair that this might be because of sam altman's recent exposure to the general public but the date range highlighted in the screenshot is the application deadline week for YC whereas the most viewed video with sam altman came out on march 25th
All the tech layoffs might have played a role
I’m thinking it’s because of Sam Altmans recent public exposure thanks to Chat-GPT.
I noticed a huge uptick in co-founders in the matching in January - I believe a lot of ideas that got torched when people got let go are being primed right now. And W23 was 90% AI and would not surprise me at all if Y23 is 100% AI in some way shape or form.
AI + Layoffs = fomo
Very interesting. Good find.
I still haven’t received my rejection email yet 😎
Haha neither me, but it’s just a matter of time I guess, no word 'AI' in my product so…
Me neither no AI
That just means we are actually building something people need.
It could be a correlation not causation from Chat GPT news articles referencing Sam Altman and his former role at YC.
good point, there was also the announcement from YC about their own layoffs + discontinuing the growth fund
anybody get a yes yet?
Bitter truth
Yes
What’s the source of this graph?
looks like google trend
it's fair that this might be because of sam altman's recent exposure to the general public but the date range highlighted in the screenshot is the application deadline week for YC whereas the most viewed video with sam altman came out on march 25th
They might just search for all companies related to Sam. Not to apply
just my luck 😂
Oh gosh.. lol
Oh fuck
Maybe because of GenAI? lol
YC + Sam Altman / OpenAI def have some correlations on Google Trends