What did the Silicon Valley startup landscape feel like when you graduated Stanford in 2003?
Replied byGarry Tan
President & CEO at Y Combinator
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Started: 2005
It was a very bleak moment right after the NASDAQ crashed and the first web boom ended. People genuinely believed it might be the end of technology. There were almost no startup jobs available in the Bay Area, and I was choosing between offers from Microsoft Windows Mobile and Expedia to pay off my student loans.
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