yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Request for Startups: Government 2.0 - Michael Seibel


less than 1m read
·Nov 3, 2024

Processing might take a few minutes. Refresh later.

Hello, my name is Michael Seibel and I'm the CEO of Y Combinator's accelerator. Today, I'm here to introduce a new request for startups.

Request for startups are a project that we do to inspire founders to apply to YC with new and interesting ideas. Today's request for startups is Government 2.0. Specifically, we're looking for startups that are helping address problems in society that you would expect government to solve, but they clearly are not.

Why it's important for us to publish this RFS is because I think a lot of people believe that Silicon Valley is actually not interested in making the world a better place. What we've learned through experience is that investors here are actually ridiculously excited to support founders who have a larger social mission.

To be clear, you have to be building a real business. It has to actually be a for-profit business because we invest in tech companies. You should be leveraging software in an important way. We have many examples of this in the past that have come through YC, including startups that help give people access to food stamps, that help keep people access to health care, that help with mass incarceration, and many more.

If your sole goal is not to get richer, to build a big company, but to actually make the world a better place or your community a better place, we are interested in funding you. Thank you very much.

More Articles

View All
Proportional reasoning with motion | AP Physics 1 | Khan Academy
NASA is researching how to send humans to Mars by as early as 2030. Now this is a complex mission because you’re traveling for millions of kilometers, and this will involve a lot of things. We have to think about how much fuel we need, how much oxygen we …
Continuity-Sikhism connections to Hinduism and Islam | 1450 - Present | World History | Khan Academy
In previous videos, we’ve gone into reasonable depth on the narrative of how the Sikh religion was started initially by Guru Nanak, and then it has developed under the next gurus all the way until the tenth Guru and finally as it was compiled in the Guru …
Introduction to multiplication
Our squirrel friend here likes to collect acorns because, really, that’s how he is able to live. Let’s say every day he collects exactly three acorns. So, what I’m curious about is how many acorns will he have after doing this for five days? One way to t…
Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture
Okay, so we’ll just like dive into this. And I’ll start by saying, you know, I’ve heard many successful founders, founders of later-stage companies like Dropbox and Airbnb, say that one of the most important things that they spend their time on as founder…
Searching for the Himalayas' Ghost Cats | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
What you got? Do you see this? This is what we have been looking for. This is a fresh scene. Oh wow, man! Look at that! It’s quite a fresh track of a snow leopard. How can you tell? Oh, you see these toes and the paw? You see the contours here? They have…
The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
This is the world’s largest 3D metal printer. It was built by Relativity Space, a startup that aims to print an entire rocket, including fuel tanks and rocket engines, in just 60 days. I’m like looking inside a 3D printed rocket that is actually gonna go …