YC cofounder after NYC coffee chats: optimism is a way-underrated founder quality
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-21
Y Combinator retweeted founder Raphael Schaad, who after a series of coffee chats with young builders in NYC concluded that optimism is a widely underrated quality in founders.
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