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Between its wise man , alumna , and private message display panel Bookface , Y Combinator is maybe only two - degrees of separation from anyone in technical school . Even Google founder Larry Page . Page spoke at a YC event in December , Business Insider reports , where he talked about the early days of Google .

Page went from one of the most seeable tech billionaire to one of the most obscure , evenbefore officially stepping downas CEO in 2019 . Prior to ostracize the spotlight , hefamously suffered from outspoken cord impairment . One of his last highly seeable appearances was , ironically enough , in 2016 when he was among the technical school elite to gather at Trump Tower after Trump ’s first election win .

It says something about YC ’s placein San Francisco ’s burgeoning AI startup scenethat it persuaded Page to visit . These days , he ’s best known for his fly EV inauguration , polar , which beganselling its Helix vehiclea twelvemonth ago .

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