Jessica Livingston
Jessica Livingston (born 1971) is an American founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator and author.[1][2][3]
Career
Livingston is a 1989 graduate of Phillips Academy[4] and earned a B.A. in English from Bucknell University.[5]
Before founding Y Combinator, Livingston was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group.[6]
In early 2007, Livingston wrote Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days, a collection of interviews with famous startup founders, including Steve Wozniak.[7]
In 2008, she married fellow Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham.[8]
Livingston is one of the financial backers of OpenAI, a for-profit company aimed at the safe development of artificial general intelligence.[9] Sam Altman, the current CEO of OpenAI, credits Livingston with being essential to the transformation of Y Combinator into a startup ecosystem. [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.
- ^ "Grow the Puzzle Around You". 2018-06-30. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "Jessica Livingston". Jessica Livingston.
- ^ "People". Y Combinator.
- ^ "Jessica Livingston: Executive Profile". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 18 March 2014.[dead link]
- ^ Taulli, Tom (30 May 2007). "Foolish Book Review: "Founders at Work"". The Motley Fool.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "PG and Jessica". Retrieved 2023-05-17.
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