Jessica Livingston
Investor, writer and podcaster
Jessica Livingston is an investor and a founding partner of the startup firm Y Combinator. Her book in our catalog is Founders at Work.
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American Born 1971 in Minneapolis, United States
About Jessica Livingston
Jessica Livingston was born in 1971 and works as an investor, a writer and a podcaster. She is a founding partner of Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm and startup accelerator that has advised and invested in companies including Dropbox and Airbnb. Before Y Combinator, she was vice president of marketing at the investment bank Adams Harkness. She organizes Startup School and has a BA in English from Bucknell. In 2015 she became a financial backer of OpenAI, which was then a nonprofit working on artificial intelligence.