This had been submitted before, but being as it was 985 days ago, I thought it was worth repeating.

I find it interesting to compare this interview, when YC was first starting up, to the most recent set of posts about YC interviews- It's a much more casual, less institutionalized environment. This was also back when YC ran Boston offices ;)

Interviews used to be enormously long. I think Jessica said they were 45 minutes, though I'm not sure I believe that.

Man, so much has changed since then.

Is there any explanation for calling Jessica 4 of 4? Is that a Seven of Nine reference or something?

She was anonymous among the YCers for a long time.

Why?