PG has a few essays that talk through some thoughts about YC like this one[1]: > Early YC was a family, and Jessica was its mom. And the culture she defined wa

PG has a few essays that talk through some thoughts about YC like this one[1]: > Early YC was a family, and Jessica was its mom. And the culture she defined was one of YC's most important innovations. Culture is important in any organization, but at YC culture wasn't just how we behaved when we built the product. At YC, the culture was the product. Jessica Livingston shares some of her stories of the early days of YC here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-cApFHjeY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-cApFHjeY 1: http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html