Welcome Michael, Jon, and Ilya

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YC seems to have taken on a lot of partners in the last few years. What does this mean? What do partners do?

YC partners: 1) recruit startups 2) select startups to fund and 3) advise startups. probably 90% of our time is in the third category.

Could you tell us a little more about how they do 1?

Also curious, I thought YC pretty much just took on startups that applied.

Scaling. Like any proper startup.

Congrats to Jon, Michael, and Ilya!

Jon has been incredibly helpful, supportive, and kind to us (Hacker School) over the years, and I'm thrilled to see him become a full-time YC partner.

Congrats to them all!

I've known Ilya as a friend for a few years now and current/future YC startups are going to be very lucky to have him around. He's an extremely intelligent and humble guy.

I thought this post was welcoming me and two other visitors for a cool HN holiday Easter Egg. Don't see many other Ilya's around :)

I'll make sure to represent Ilyas well!

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Congrats Michael!

Michael has been very kind and always helpful whenever I have reached out to him. YC is lucky to have him!

Jon was great to work with when my company was in YC. Happy to see he's a full time partner now.

congrats guys.

I can personally attest that jlevy & mwseibel are amazing. both had profound impact on us while going through YC. great ft additions.

Jon has been a strong advisor on key issues, psyched to have him as a full time partner!

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