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I work as a group partner at Y Combinator. Over the last 48 hours I've talked to numerous founders of YC companies who told me they can't make payroll to their employees next week. In many cases they had raised millions of dollars which is currently locked into their SvB accounts. Even if they get access to the insured $250k on Monday that won't last long and in many cases not even cover the payroll they are planning to run. YC wrote this petition with these founders in mind who in good faith trusted that their money would be safe in Silicon Valley Bank.

Making the world cut demand for concrete might actually sound dramatically harder than making zero-emission concrete. (and both are extremely hard!)

We are big believers in Nuclear energy, and it's part of the RFS.

But many other sectors need to be electrified for nuclear power to have its decarbonization impact: buildings, industry, transportation etc.

Which ideas are doomed to fail? I would love to hear your feedback

This isn't correct. SAFE isn't a debt instrument - its a right to own shares in a future round. You are probably thinking of convertible debt.

Congrats on the launch Alex - very happy for you and everyone you will be able to serve! /Gustaf

Very excited about this! Hoping more firms will make this decision

I have both a Facebook portal and a Sidekick (I work at YC) and I find there to be a huge difference between the UI of the Portal and how I use my Sidekick.

Before YC I worked at Airbnb and before that I worked at Voxer which was a pioneering company in asynchronous voice. A phone call is either on or off. Asynchronous is different and the other side and choose to participate or not. Facebook portal is to video what a phone call is to voice. Sidekick is much more what like Voxer is to voice.

Considering the value of [name-redacted] I'm surprised it's not higher price.

In the Summer 2020 batch every company is remote. My guess would be that 25% of the companies in the batch are currently based in the bay area.