# The Secrets of Y Combinator’s Early Success (with YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston)

**Author:** Garry Tan
**Type:** Video
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ke-the-secrets-of-y-combinator-s-early-success-with-yc-co-founder-jessica-livingston
**YouTube ID:** YV2YE0XvhOs

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Y Combinator has created over $600B of value, but in 2005 it was just an idea. In this video YC Co-Founder Jessica
Livingston joins Garry Tan to tell us some about the earliest days of Y Combinator.

