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Jessica Livingston

YC co-founder; Founders at Work, founder-empathy lens

Jessica Livingston is an American investor, writer, and podcaster. She is best known for being a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator.

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#19Venture Investors by Framework
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Rank #19·YC co-founder; Founders at Work, founder-empathy lens
Frameworks

Attributed to Jessica Livingston

Mental models, principles, and operating frameworks extracted from sources where Jessica is the credited author or speaker.

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The Startup Survival Pattern
Key patterns from successful startup founders: persistence through rejection, pivoting, and staying close to users
Entrepreneurship·from Founders at Work
Domains

Framework distribution

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Entrepreneurship1 framework · 0%
Bibliography

Sources by Jessica Livingston

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Book
2007
Founders at Work
Book·2 frameworks extracted
Appears alongside

Top neighbors of Jessica Livingston

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Aileen Lee
Cowboy; "unicorn" coiner, Cambrian-explosion essays
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Albert Wenger
USV; World After Capital, attention-economy thesis
1shared list
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Alfred Lin
Sequoia; Zappos-COO turned investor; ops-as-moat
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04
Andy Rachleff
Benchmark co-founder; product-market fit term coiner
1shared list
05
Ann Miura-Ko
Floodgate; market-disequilibrium thesis
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06
Anu Hariharan
Avra; ex-YC growth lead; growth-stage frameworks
1shared list
07
Arthur Rock
original VC; people-first investing (legacy founder-of-VC)
1shared list
08
Avichal Garg
Electric Capital; crypto-developer-report thesis
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10 May 2026
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