Arsen Kazibekov

Repeat @ycombinator founders hit different. Early success + the YC learnings = massively higher odds of building a category-defining company. Eg: 1. Sam Altman • Act I: Loopt (YC S05) — location-based social networking app. Sold to Green Dot for $43.4M • Act II: OpenAI — Valued at $852B 2. Tom Brown • Act I: Grouper (YC W12) — group-dating app. • Act II: Anthropic — Valued at $380B 3. Patrick Collison • Act I: Auctomatic (YC W07) — auction management tool acquired for $5M • Act II: Stripe (YC S09) — Valued at $159B 4. Qasar Younis • Act I: TalkBin (YC W11) — customer feedback platform acquired by Google • Act II: Applied Intuition — Valued at $15B 5. Eric Glyman & Karim Atiyeh • Act I: Paribus (YC S15) — price-tracking app acquired by Capital One • Act II: Ramp — Valued at $32B 6. Parker Conrad • Act I: Zenefits (YC W13) — Rippling 1.0 • Act II: Rippling (YC W17) — Valued at $16.8B 7. Daniel Gross • Act I: Greplin (YC W10) — predictive search engine acquired for ~$40M by Apple. • Act II: Safe Superintelligence — Valued at $32B 8. Howie Liu • Act I: Etacts (YC W10) — crm tool acquired by Salesforce • Act II: Airtable — Valued at $11.7B 9. Tom Blomfield • Act I: GoCardless (YC S11) — b2b payment processor acquired for €1.05B • Act II: Monzo — Valued at $5B+ 10. Jesse Zhang • Act I: Lowkey (YC S18) — gameplay recording app. Acquired by Niantic. • Act II: Decagon — Valued at $4.5B 11. Immad Akhund • Act I: Clickpass (S07) — acquired by Yola • Act II: Heyzap (YC W09) — mobile ad network acquired for $45M • Act III: Mercury — Valued at $3.5B 12. Rujul Zaparde • Act I: FlightCar (YC W13) — airport car-sharing startup acquired by mercedes-benz • Act II: Zip (YC S20) — Valued at $2.2B 13. Kyle Vogt • Act I: Twitch (YC W07) — acquired by Amazon for $970M • Act II: Cruise (YC W14) — Acquired by General Motors for $1B+ 14. Emmett Shear & Justin Kan • Act I: Kiko (YC S05) — calendar app famously auctioned off on eBay for $258k • Act II: Twitch (YC W07) — Acquired by Amazon for $970M

missed a few crucial ones: • Ben Silberman - Act I and Act II - AudioBeta (W06) and MightyQuiz (W08) // Act III - Pinterest • Anton Osika - Act I - Depict (YC S20) // Act II Lovable - Valued at $6.6B • Karri Saarinen - Act I - Kippt (YC S12) // Act II Linear - Valued at $1.25B