Paul Graham @paulg I met a startup today whose founders had previously worked at Coinbase and Scale. And Brian Armstrong of Coinbase had himself worked at Airbnb. I bet 3 "generations" is not the record though. Anyone know of a longer chain? Paul Graham @paulg There is a chain of 4 YC startups: Auctomatic (w07), GoCardless (s11), Duffel (s18), Vizzly (s22). @briandecoded Would love to see a proper family tree of these things. Keith Rabois @rabois PayPal Palantir Affirm? Paul Graham @paulg I'm talking about chains of people working for YC cos and then getting funded by YC themselves.
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