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This is an amazing recruiting tool for YC and is a page out of JOEL SPOLSKY's book:

"So if the top 1 percent never apply for jobs (aka get startup funding), how can you recruit them? My theory is that the best way is to find them before they realize there is a job market (aka startup funding)--back when they're still in college."[0]

[0] http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/column-guest.html

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In 2006 YC ran this ad in The Stanford Daily. I always thought it was funny.

http://i.imgur.com/HuQxIXT.jpg

"if you need it"

Haha!

This ad is the poster (pardon the pun) for YC sexism, it still appears in women in tech blog posts all the time. Hard to imagine being a Stanford student in 2006 who has never heard of "Y Combinator" and sees this ad. May get a laugh from a guy like Evan Spiegel, but is just plain creepy to a woman.

Sergey and Larry actually "just got a job" after graduation: Researchers at a university pursuing a phd. They used THIS JOB to develop the technology for their (later) company. Then they FIRST tried to SELL the (search-)algorithm and when they didn't find someone (to pay a couple of millions) they started Google. AND... Larry is/was the driving master mind taking Sergey (and a lot of others) with him to success. Well... it's an add.

Next cycle, there will be a new question on the YC application: "Have you taken YC's course, or followed along online?"

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