Steve Derico (@stevederico) on X

“what matters now is your agency and your taste” no permission required, credentials matter much less accepted 18-22 yo founders up 110% anyone can put something on the internet & get distribution 2/6 🧵next: big tech

“We need platform neutrality...we need platforms to allow other people to enter" today we cannot choose between siri, perplexity, and chatgpt open platforms would create 100k companies, each could get to $1,000,000,000 net revenue 3/6 🧵next: being a founder

“The process of becoming a founder is a journey inward to learn the sound of your own voice” must learn the hard way — you can make your own way, you can have agency category-defining startups require a level of courage you have to find within yourself 4/6 🧵next: revolution

“Go into any business in the world, they don’t know this revolution is going to happen to them, and we get to create it” most have never touched chatGPT they don't know, only for the next year or 2 founders will go into markets, define knowledge & build 5/6 🧵next: the future

“YC is the tree of prosperity, let's have the tree grow” Current batch: ~90% AI, ~10% hard tech, revenue growth 12% focused on growing thoughtfully, new partners

6/6 ✅ thank you for your time. I would love to attend YC AI summit 🤞