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Jason Freedman
@jasonfreedman
GP Orange Collective - The YC Unc Fund | YC alum: S09 and W12 | Investor in Starcloud, Corgi, Mastra, Ironclad, Steadily, Browser-use and 100+ more
Danville, CA
orangecollective.com
Joined July 2007
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Apr 27
    Whenever I go to Paris to talk about investing in YC startups, I'm always amazed how much the French just LOVE Y Combinator. Nous t'aimons aussi, France. My French friend of @Fundoraclub wanted to see YC from the inside...and share it with the people of France. This is the
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Nov 9, 2025
    Very common Series A planning conversation between founders and seed investors right now: Founder: I'm going to go out for the A next quarter...so it's time to start gearing up with pitch materials, introductions, coffee chats, etc. But I think I might try raising from Standard
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Aug 19, 2025
    Thrilled to announce our investment in Autumn (YC S25), led by Ayush Rodrigues and John Yeo. Back when I was in YC, my batch included Patrick and John Collison, who were building dev/payments, which later became Stripe.
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Nov 16, 2025
    Last night's sneak peak from inside Y Combinator Note - YC founders are days away from Demo Day. The internets are about to start their quarterly complaints about YC valuations, founders that move too fast, inflated ARR numbers, etc. I thought I would share what it's like
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    Jason Freedman
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    Nov 4, 2019
    Replying to @paulg
    In 2008, my year, my MBA class went 40% consulting, 20% finance, 20% general management, 19% other, 1% startups (me and another guy). Curriculum focused on big companies. Today. Same school: 40% head to startups. But the curriculum is substantially the same.
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Nov 4, 2019
    Replying to @jasonfreedman and @paulg
    Tenured professors are not former founders, they’re researchers who have published eship papers. The would adapt if they could. But they don’t actually know how to teach startups. Most of the eship curriculum is around business pitch competitions because it’s easy to run.
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Aug 1, 2025
    Replying to @snowmaker
    It was 12 hours after I had been fired from the company that had acquired my first YC company. PG called me up when I emailed him the news. He wouldn't let me vent. Instead, we were immediately brainstorming a new startup for me. I said I wanted to make it easier to search
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Aug 26, 2025
    Replying to @paulg and @SenMarkKelly
    They should just reduce the permitted delay on disclosure. Right now it sits at 30 days and all members of Congress generally submit on the last day. We almost did a start up on this and tracked every PDF submission for a while. All of their alpha relative to the market is
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Jun 7, 2025
    The people who understand this more than anyone on the planet are the YC founders of successfully exited companies that do YC again for the same 7%. And there are a huge number of us. We understand that increasing your odds of building a big company is more important than the
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    Garry Tan
    Y Combinator
    @garrytan
    Jun 7, 2025
    PSA notice to founders considering YC Doing YC more than pays for the 7% equity you give up When you combine that with the clear speed up and community that helps you (and that your % likelihood of success goes up a lot more too) this means YC is clearly worth it
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    Jason Freedman
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    Aug 1, 2025
    Replying to @snowmaker
    I became a broker for 6 months before starting 42Floors. Didn’t love it. Can’t imagine running that company without it.
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Oct 9, 2025
    Mastra was our first investment in this @orangecollectv fund. And man, did we pick right. First investment = top candidate for a fund returner. First check was the day before they started YC. We gave them the max they would take. Second check? The very next day. Why do we
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    Sam Bhagwat
    Mastra
    @calcsam
    Oct 9, 2025
    we raised a $13m seed round from 120+ of Silicon Valley’s top investors for @mastra, the leading TypeScript agent framework
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    Jason Freedman
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    Jul 21, 2018
    Mostly, just thank you. 42floors.com/blog/uncategor…
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    Jason Freedman
    @jasonfreedman
    Sep 12, 2025
    The Venture Series A industry will have a pre-Standard Capital and post-Standard Capital split. Exactly the same as the shift in seed funding that occurred when YC introduced the Summer Founders Program in 2006 and the SAFE in 2012. The market will shift over time to those
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    Dalton Caldwell
    Standard Capital
    @daltonc
    Sep 12, 2025
    Paul, Bryan and I are proud to announce the close of Standard Capital's $425M Fund I. Standard Capital is Series A for the best founders. Applications for our inaugural funding cycle are open now.
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