Top Stories from the YC World — October 31 to November 6, 2015
YC News
Y Combinator profiled in the Economist
Jessica Livingston interview with Aaron Harris on Startup School Radio
Luke Iseman quoted in the Korea Herald and China’s TechNode
Sam Altman interview on the Jay and Farhad Show podcast
Writing
Startup Playbook by Sam Altman
A Way to Detect Bias by Paul Graham
Thank you, Y Combinator by Garry Tan
Alumni News
SunFarmer (S15) recognized by President Bill Clinton at 2015 Clinton Global Initiative
Watsi (W13) raises $3.5M in philanthropic growth round, co-founder Grace Carey featured in Self Magazine
Verge Genomics (S15) raises $4M for algorithm-enabled drug discovery
Gingko Bioworks (S14) purchases 100M base pairs of synthetic DNA from Twist Bioscience
Semantics3 (W13) raises $1.55M for e-commerce data platform
GitLab (W15), now with 1M downloads, featured in Business Insider
Pebble (W11) CEO Eric Migicovsky onstage at Dublin Web Summit
Dropbox (S07) talks enterprise growth at its first Dropbox Open conference
Genius (S11) announces partnership with Eminem
Weave (S14) raises $15.5M for small business communication platform