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Paul Buchheit and Geoff Ralston never had YC companies and first became well known creating major advancements in email. Trevor Blackwell is a hardware enginee
by the_watcher 13y ago
Paul Buchheit and Geoff Ralston never had YC companies and first became well known creating major advancements in email. Trevor Blackwell is a hardware engineer who spends his time building segways. Carolynn Levy is a lawyer. Robert Morris is an academic. Kirsty Nathoo is an accountant with an engineering degree who went to school in the UK. Jessica Livingston has an English degree and is best known as an author who wrote about primarily non-YC founders. Garry Tan is well known for his design expertise. PG has a philosophy degree, spent time in painting school, and has a PhD in CS. That's a pretty diverse group. The fact that the last 3 full time partners they brought on are young YC founders is pretty much meaningless - why would they not bring on the people they have worked with before? It just so happens that recently, most of their work has been done with YC founders. Honestly curious - after reading the bios of all the partners, how would you suggest they bring on more "unusual" partners? Any examples?