And it’s just one in a growing list of successful and increasingly wealthy startups - Reddit, Dropbox and Instacart, to name a few - that were propelled to stardom at Mountain View-based Y Combinator. Today, Airbnb is valued at $10 billion and more than 11 million people have used the site to book a room or home rental. Now the biggest surprises are how big these companies get.”
“With Airbnb, we sort of laughed,” said Jessica Livingston, 43, a Y Combinator co-founder. All that changed when they were accepted into Y Combinator, a three-month, bone-grinding, sleep-depriving, brain-busting boot camp that offers aspiring entrepreneurs business advice, access to some of the valley’s most high-profile investors and tech leaders, and an infusion of cash - with the goal to create the next hot company.
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