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Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B

Following our Series A announcement earlier this year, I'm thrilled to announce that we raised Series B financing from new and existing investors. This year alone we've doubled our user base to reach 10m+ users, tripled concurrent containers on our network, and grew traffic to sites and apps on the network by orders…

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What's Wrong with Tech Hiring

I went through a lot of interviews after being laid off by RStudio earlier this year. Some really impressed me---in particular, I think Automattic 's hiring process was excellent---but many were haphazard, confusing, or misguided . I'm not alone in feeling this way: Behroozi2019 found that the questions asked in…

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Ginkgo Bioworks (YC S14) is going public today

Ginkgo Bioworks [https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ginkgo-bioworks] is the first biotech company YC funded, and today they are going public. To celebrate their IPO, here’s the story of how Ginkgo Bioworks ended up in YC, and what their journey was like as YC’s first biotech startup. In 2014, YC had been funding…

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Work from Home and Productivity

We study productivity before and during the working from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic, using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company. Hours worked increased, including a rise of 18% outside normal business hours. Average output declined…