Michael Seibel
Michael Seibel is Managing Director, Batch and Group Partner at YC. He was the cofounder and CEO of Justin.tv and Socialcam. Socialcam sold to Autodesk in 2012 for $60m and under the leadership of Emmett Shear, Justin.tv became Twitch.tv and sold to Amazon in 2014 for $970m. Before getting into startups, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign and in 2005, Michael graduated from Yale University with a BA in political science.
YC stats
- The YC companies Michael has worked with are worth a combined $192 billion.
- Michael has done 6,500 office hours with 1,745+ companies over the course of 21 batches.
- He has read over 17,000 YC applications and participated in over 3,100 YC interviews.
- He’s advised 50+ companies worth more than $500m including:
In the news
- Wired: How Y Combinator Changed the World
- Invest in the Best: Michael Seibel - Lessons from Thousands of Startups
- Wired: Airbnb's Surprising Path to Y Combinator
- Reuters: Startup fund Y Combinator increases global reach, diversity of entrepreneurs
- Forbes: Michael Seibel Becomes Reddit's First Black Board Member After Alexis Ohanian's Resignation
- TechCrunch: 'Hard truths in the game' and misconceptions about YC's position
- The Quest: From Twitch to Y Combinator Managing Director @Michael Seibel (2020)
Videos
How to Build An MVP
Best startup lessons from Y Combinator
A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator