Jessica Livingston
Jessica Livingston is an American author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator.[1][2] She also organizes Startup School.[3] Previously, she was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group.[4] She has a B.A. in English from Bucknell University.[5]She is a 1989 graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover.[6]
In early 2007, Livingston released Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (published by Apress), a collection of interviews with famous startup founders, including Steve Wozniak, Mitch Kapor, Ray Ozzie, and Max Levchin.[7]
In 2008, she married fellow Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham.[8][9]
In December 2015, it was announced that Livingston is one of the financial backers of OpenAI, a for profit company aimed at the safe development of artificial general intelligence.[10]
References
- ^ "How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups". Fast Company. 2009-04-01. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ "The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator's Paul Graham, Page 2". Inc.com. 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ "2011 Startup School". Startupschool.org. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ "Jessica Livingston: Executive Profile". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ Y Combinator bio page
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- ^ Taulli, Tom. "Foolish Book Review: "Founders at Work"". The Motley Fool.
- ^ "Where are we going?". arclanguage.org. 2008-10-26. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
- ^ "Congrats to PG on getting hitched". news.ycombinator.com. 2008-06-02. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
- ^ Priestly, Theo (December 11, 2015). "Elon Musk And Peter Thiel Launch OpenAI, A Non-Profit Artificial Intelligence Research Company". Forbes. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
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