Jessica Livingston

JESSICA LIVINGSTON

Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, MA, and Mountain View, CA. She was previously VP of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness.

In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School. She has a BA in English from Bucknell.

She was previously VP of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness, where she managed an award-winning rebranding of the company.

She is the author of Founders at Work (2007), a book of interviews with startup founders, and writes regularly about YC on her blog.

Jessica Livingston was previously VP of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness, where she managed an award-winning rebranding of the company. She is the author of Founders at Work (2007), a book of interviews with startup founders, and writes regularly about YC on her blog. She has a BA in English from Bucknell.

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.