Y Combinator's mission is more innovation in the world! Every year we fund over 600 new startups who join our program. Y Combinator has funded over 4,600 companies across 38 batches since 2005. Those companies combined have created 200k+ new jobs. Airbnb, Stripe, Doordash, Dropbox, Cruise, Coinbase, Instacart, Faire, Brex and Gusto are some of the famous ones https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/. More info here: http://ycombinator.com/

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Angel investor: Notion, Linear, Tictail(Shop), Vivino, Sunrise(MSFT), Mapbox, Bright Solar, Cambly, Alto, Veriff, Pachama, Living Carbon, Heart Aerospace, Statiq, Enode etcIf you are starting a company - apply here https://www.ycombinator.com/apply.

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Airbnb is building the largest, most loved community of travelers and hosts in the world. I started the product growth team in 2012, which over the next five years grew to over 120 people while Airbnb grew 25x in annual bookings. The growth team eventually oversaw SEO, Virality, Performance Marketing, Referrals, Onboarding, Retention, Internationalization, Authentication, Email Engagement, and Mobile Growth. Nearly everything I know about growth I learned working for this team. It was the best time of my life.

Voxer turns your phone into a Walkie Talkie. Messages stream live as you talk and your friends can join you live or listen later. We're making voice communication faster, more efficient, and more social. Our goal is ambitious - we're building the next generation communication service at the intersection between phone calls and SMS.We launched in spring of 2011 and later grew to many tens of millions of users and becoming the fastest growing voice application in the world. Voxer was the 13th most downloaded application on iOS in the world in 2012. Voxer invented streaming push-to-talk and was granted 60+ patents for the invention. Push-to-talk is now a core top-level feature of iMessage, Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram etc. We put up a good fight.2022 update: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/22/meta-pay-walkie-talkie-app-maker-voxer-175m-patent-infringement/