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How French investor Gabriel Jarrosson grew from posting on YouTube to raising a fund that backs YC companies exclusively. techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/thi…
Gabriel Jarrosson
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Gabriel Jarrosson
@GJarrosson
Founder & Managing Partner @LobsterCapVC 🦞 Investing in the top 2% of @YCombinator startups. Founder with 3 exits. Creator of @YCRoaster
Joined September 2010
- People think reapplying to YC looks desperate. YC thinks it shows determination. Some founders get accepted on their 4th, even 5th application. YC tracks your progress across every attempt. They see you improving. The mistake most founders make is reapplying with the same
- YC backs 5-10 versions of the same company every batch. For YC, this strategy works. They deploy $75M per batch across 150 companies anyway. One winner pays for five competitors when you're operating at that scale. If one becomes the breakout, the 7% they own covers the losses
- Les femmes produisent 66% du travail mondial mais ne perçoivent que 10% des revenus (Source : Banque mondiale, 2013)
- Mixy launched into YC with 1.5 million users, 15 million music mashups created, and 14,000 App Store ratings. They gave YC 7% anyway. Most people don't understand this. They think YC is for first-time founders with just an idea. That used to be true. Not anymore. This batch
- Everyone laughed at these college kids' "stupid" fake website. Now it controls more traffic than Netflix and YouTube TV combined. $10 BILLION in value from faking 100s of users. Here's how Reddit quietly became the most powerful site in history:
- Je suis très fier de te présenter mon nouveau livre qui sort aujourd'hui aux éditions Maxima. Merci Xavier Niel (@Xavier75) pour la préface :) Lien Amazon dans le tweet suivant ⬇️
- The Real Reason @synclabs Ships So Fast Everyone says they ship fast. Sync actually does. YC founder @therealprady explains the cultural engine that powers Sync’s insane shipping speed—from 5am fixes to public commitments. It’s not tactics—it’s team obsession.
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