Jessica Livingston

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Jessica Livingston

Jessica Livingston (born February 5, 1972)^[1] is an American author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator.^[2]^[3] She also organizes Startup School.^[4] Previously, she was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group.^[5] She has a B.A. in English from Bucknell University.^[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]

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Citation Linkwww.crunchbase.comJessica Livingston

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Citation Linkwww.fastcompany.com"How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups". Fast Company. 2009-04-01. Retrieved 2012-07-05.

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Citation Linkwww.inc.com"The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator's Paul Graham, Page 2". Inc.com. 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2012-07-05.

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Citation Linkwww.startupschool.org"2011 Startup School". Startupschool.org. Retrieved 2012-07-05.

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Citation Linkinvesting.businessweek.com"Jessica Livingston: Executive Profile". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 18 March 2014.

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Citation Linkycombinator.comY Combinator bio page

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Citation Linkwww.fool.comTaulli, Tom. "Foolish Book Review: "Founders at Work"". The Motley Fool.

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Citation Linkarclanguage.org"Where are we going?". arclanguage.org. 2008-10-26. Retrieved 2008-11-14.

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Citation Linknews.ycombinator.com"Congrats to PG on getting hitched". news.ycombinator.com. 2008-06-02. Retrieved 2008-11-14.

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Citation Linkwww.forbes.comPriestly, 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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Citation Linkwww.crunchbase.comJessica Livingston

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Citation Linkwww.fastcompany.com"How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups"

Sep 29, 2019, 8:28 AM

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Citation Linkwww.inc.com"The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator's Paul Graham, Page 2"

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Citation Linkwww.startupschool.org"2011 Startup School"