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Y Combinator cut a small team overseeing admissions this summer, another
indicator that YC’s new president and CEO, Garry Tan, is focused on
bringing back the old days of the accelerator, when its founders  personally
reviewed applications  rather than handing them off to another team. Thomas
Kilmer, former director of admissions at Y Combinator, who was laid off as part
of the cuts, said the...


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