Jared Friedman
@snowmaker
founder, techno-optimist, college dropout, partner at @ycombinator.
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Graphify Labs is the first YC company to hit 100K github stars during the batch.
One of the great chapters in America's history is how we converted our economy to wartime production in the 1940s and used our industrial power to win WWII.
I'd learned in high school that we converted car factories into tank factories. But I never knew the full story until last month, when I read Freedom's Forge, the definitive book on this.
It turns out the true story is even crazier and more impressive. In honor of July 4th, here's the story of how America won WWII, one factory at a time.
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Wafer made AMD GPUs competitive with NVIDIA chips for AI inference - at half the cost.
Improving a product with a chat interface is so much easier than a website. With a website, you're stuck watching screen recordings and guessing what users wanted. With a chat interface, they literally tell you in English what they want your product to do.
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People are often surprised how many hard-tech companies YC funds, and for how long we've been doing it. It's been about 10% of the batch since 2014 when Sam became CEO.
