Jared Friedman Email Address

Group Partner

Y Combinator is a financial services company which specializes in incubation, seed, and later stage funding for early stage startups.

I love startups. I've been fortunate to get to participate in almost every role: founder, hacker, manager, employee, investor, advisor. I strongly believe that silicon valley is building the future. Living in San Francisco is like living in a time bubble that's stuck 5 years ahead of the rest of the world. Decades from now we will look back on this time and place as the most productive and innovative of all time. I studied CS at Harvard but dropped out the year after Mark Zuckerberg because life is too short to not feel like you are having the most impact you can at every moment. I write code every day. It keeps me sane. Specialties: Growth hacking, monetization, raising money, finding product/market fit, marketplaces, data science, recruiting, running engineering orgs, dealing with uncertainty, refusing to give up.