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How Did Tikhon Get Into Y Combinator

Tikhon was in graduate school in theoretical physics, when he read Paul Graham's essay on How to Start a Startup. Inspired by what he saw, Tikhon applied, not at all sure that he would get in, but once accepted, Tikhon dropped out of grad school and moved to Cambridge, where YC was based at the time. The rest is history!

Y Combinator · The Challenges Of A Repeat Founder · at 0:49 · ·Transcript

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