{"id":75212,"date":"2018-01-13T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/y-combinator-will-give-you-1-million-to-try-to-cure-aging"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:01:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:01:41","slug":"y-combinator-will-give-you-1-million-to-try-to-cure-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/y-combinator-will-give-you-1-million-to-try-to-cure-aging","title":{"rendered":"Y Combinator will give you $1 million to try to cure aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/y-combinator-will-give-you-1-million-to-try-to-cure-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The famed startup incubator Y Combinator put out <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ycombinator.com\/yc-bio\/\">a call<\/a> for companies that want to increase human longevity and \u201chealth span.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who they want:<\/strong> Founders with new ideas for treating old-age diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s, \u201cbut we will also consider more radical anti-aging schemes,\u201d YC president Sam Altman told <em>MIT Technology Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why longevity?<\/strong> Efforts to stop old age don\u2019t actually get funded much. \u201cMy sense is that economic incentives of drugs companies are screwed up\u201d says Altman. \u201cI don\u2019t think we have enough people saying, How can we make a lot of people a lot heathier?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/609963\/y-combinator-will-give-you-1-million-to-try-to-cure-aging\/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-01-12&utm_campaign=Technology+Review\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/609963\/y-combi...ogy+Review<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famed startup incubator Y Combinator put out a call for companies that want to increase human longevity and \u201chealth span.\u201d Who they want: Founders with new ideas for treating old-age diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s, \u201cbut we will also consider more radical anti-aging schemes,\u201d YC president Sam Altman told MIT Technology Review. Why longevity? Efforts to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75231,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75212\/revisions\/75231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}