Fellow Hackers,<p>I am interested in the history of YC and started to look around for more stories and insights about how YC started and became what it is today.<p>There are some resources on the web [1,2] but I couldn't find too much.<p>As there are some alumni and employees from YC lurking around here, I just thought to ask you to share your stories!<p>1: https://web.archive.org/web/20140824071024/http://old.ycombinator.com/start.html
2: https://www.ycombinator.com/principles/
PG has a few essays that talk through some thoughts about YC like this one[1]:<p>> Early YC was a family, and Jessica was its mom. And the culture she defined was one of YC's most important innovations. Culture is important in any organization, but at YC culture wasn't just how we behaved when we built the product. At YC, the culture was the product.<p>Jessica Livingston shares some of her stories of the early days of YC here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-cApFHjeY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-cApFHjeY</a><p>1: <a href="http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html</a>