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Inside Y Combinator

78 minutes

What did you do at your startup on day 1 that helped on day 1000?

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Tunde Kara

Co-Founder & CEO at Vendease

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Calvin French-Owen

Y Combinator, Co-Founder of Segment

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2:27
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Michael Seibel

Managing Director at Y Combinator

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0:58
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Jean Patry

CEO @ mojo (YC W18)

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1:06
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Slava Solonitsyn

CEO and Co-founder, Mighty Buildings

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1:24
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Jonathan Friedman

CEO, Cofounder at Assembly, Inc.

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1:55
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What's the one thing you did as a founder that helped you raise
money?

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Connor Hailey

Co-Founder & CEO at Axle Health

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1:49
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Ivan Lee

CEO, Datasaur.ai

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0:21
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Michael Seibel

Managing Director at Y Combinator

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0:56
144
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Raphael Schaad

Founder CEO at Cron

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47
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Christophe Pasquier

Founder and CEO of Slite

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1:28
48
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Jonathan Friedman

CEO, Cofounder at Assembly, Inc.

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2:50
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When did you screw up really really badly and what did you learn?

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Ivan Lee

CEO, Datasaur.ai

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0:49
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Kirill Avery

Founder at Lalabox

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1:53
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When did you know to sell your startup vs. staying independent?

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Calvin French-Owen

Y Combinator, Co-Founder of Segment

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2:18
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How did you find a mentor that was right for you?

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Slava Solonitsyn

CEO and Co-founder, Mighty Buildings

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How have you built and managed an authentic community?

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Ricky Yean

CEO, Flow Club

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When were you rejected and what did you learn?

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Robert Gaal

Co-founder & CEO of Quest

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2:07
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How did you decide to join an incubator with your startup or not?

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Brian Park

Co-founder / CEO of Foreword

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1:42
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Daniel James

Co-Founder & CEO at PostureHealth

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1:01
26
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Anne-Sophie Mertgen

Founder and CEO at Micro Meat

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0:33
25
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Benjamin Claman

CEO/Co-Founder at Buoyant Technologies

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1:15
13
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Daniel Dinh

Co-Founder & CEO at Laserfocus.io

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1:40
4
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Slava Solonitsyn

CEO and Co-founder, Mighty Buildings

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1:32
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Robert Gaal

Co-founder & CEO of Quest

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2:19
34
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What did you learn from your latest product launch?

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Tomas Alvarez Belon

Canopi | Schwarzman Scholar | Bain & Co

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1:06
28
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Nik Kotov

CTO @ Atomized

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0:38
29
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Harshita Arora

Co-founder of AtoB (atob.com)

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1:15
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Lyndsey Bunting

CEO & Co-Founder at Blue Onion Labs

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Ire Aderinokun

COO & VP Engineering at Buycoins

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0:54
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How have you improved your relationship with your co-founder?

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Brennan McEachran

Ceo/co-founder Hypercontext.com

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2:21
26
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Jeremy Lam

Founder and CEO at Venu

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5:18
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What growth strategy worked for your company and why?

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Thomas Maremaa

Founder @ Encuadrado

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1:26
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Gustaf Alstromer

Partner Y Combinator

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3:07
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How did you meet your co-founder and why did it work out?

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Robert McBride

Co-Founder & CEO of Felix Biotechnology

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Harshita Arora

Co-founder of AtoB (atob.com)

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1:02
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Grant Shaddick

Tella co-founder

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Lyndsey Bunting

CEO & Co-Founder at Blue Onion Labs

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1:18
9
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Ire Aderinokun

COO & VP Engineering at Buycoins

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0:52
14
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Miguel Carranza

CTO & Co-Founder at RevenueCat

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1:39
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How did you convince your first customer to pay for your product?

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Angela Ferrante

CEO + Founder at Laudable

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What did you learn about being an investor that most people get
wrong?

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Gustaf Alstromer

Partner Y Combinator

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1:18
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Michael Seibel

Managing Director at Y Combinator

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1:19
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What do you know now that you should've known when your career
started?

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Calvin French-Owen

Y Combinator, Co-Founder of Segment

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1:07
84
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Robert McBride

Co-Founder & CEO of Felix Biotechnology

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0:31
21
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Nik Kotov

CTO @ Atomized

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0:50
23
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Brendan Falk

Co-founder & CEO at Fig

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2:48
17
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Richard Bronson

Founder/CEO Commissary Club & 70 Million Jobs

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Who was your best early employee in your startup?

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Jonathan Friedman

CEO, Cofounder at Assembly, Inc.

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What did your best team members have in common?

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Chris Castiglione

Co-founder & CEO of One Month

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Cory Bray

8x Author | MD @ ClozeLoop | Partner @ 2.12 Angels

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