Jared Friedman
Jared Friedman is a Group Partner and Managing Director of Software at Y Combinator, where he has worked full-time since October 2015 and succeeded Michael Seibel as Managing Director in March 2024. He co-founded the document-sharing platform Scribd in 2006 with his Harvard roommates Trip Adler and Tikhon Bernstam, serving as CTO and growing the site to one of the top 100 websites globally. At YC, the companies he has advised are worth a combined $103 billion, and he has personally read over 12,000 startup applications.
“the super smart models that we have now are actually accelerating scientific research”
Source→“all the YC companies that are using physical intelligence as models to deploy robotics, they're all fine-tuning the Pi models”
Source→“The existing suppliers that are these sort of like sleepy old businesses... just like can't keep up with the pace that the new defense tech startups want to build at”
Source→“We worked on it for about a month or two before Jared pulled us aside and we're like, guys, this is, I don't know if this is going to go anywhere. And that's exactly what we needed to hear.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.