Jessica Livingston is one of the founders of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's most prominent startup incubator. Companies that got their first funding from Y Combinator include Airbnb, Coinbase, Doordash, Reddit, Twitch, Stripe, and Dropbox. In 2007, she published a best-selling book of interviews with startup founders called Founders at Work. She was one of the original donors to OpenAI. Since 2023, she's hosted "The Social Radars" podcast, where she interviews successful founders.