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.
Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart
NCR is the starting link for the US tech alumni chain.
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