Founders at Work: 150+ YCombinator Founders’ Stories

Jessica Livingston's book "Founders at work" (2007, 32 stories) inspired thousands of founders to start their startups. I find and put in one place to inspire new wave of founders. (+pitchdecs, 1-minute videos, demo day videos, applications, and “early workplaces”). And I am finding every day more and more stories! Sometimes I think that stories find me. Today it is impossible to write and publish material book about YC founders, let it be a digital, neverending book, that writes itself. 150+ founders stories It was an amazing journey, it changed my mindset. I rushed into unknown unknowns, where angels fear to tread... and I want to share this with everyone. I hope, that saves 50-100 hours for 1000+ new founders. It is my "embarrassing MVP" I continue to work on, and I need your feedback. FoundersAtWork.io Everyone can founder's story! contribute 2005 Y Combinator (S05) (text, 2021) What I Worked On Why I Do YC ( , 2008) text The Social Radar: What I Did at Y Combinator ( , 2015) text Grow the Puzzle Around You ( , 2018) text (video, 2015) How to make something people want Kiko (S05) How My First Startup Got Picked For Y Combinator ( , 2021) video Shitty First Startups ( , 2015) video I Almost Sold To Yahoo For $1,000,000 At 22 ( , 2021) video I Sold My Startup On Ebay For $258,100 , 2021) (video Reddit (S05) Our Y Combinator Summer 05 Application [what would lead to reddit] (text, 2017) How Reddit's Alexis Ohanian Stays Productive--Even on Travel Days Interview with Jessica Livingston ( , 2010) video Alexis Ohanian has left Reddit's board in a 'long overdue' move. Here's how he launched Reddit into a $3 billion behemoth and became an outspoken activist in the tech world. ( , 2020) text 2006 Wofoo (W06) Interview with Jessica Livingston ( , 2010) video Wufoo Sold For $35 Mil. Here's The Story Behind Its Success. ( , , 2011) text video How to Design Software Users Love ( , 2012) video Interview with Kevin Hale ( , 2014) video How to Build Products Users Love ( , 2014) video How to solve cofounder problems? ( , 2016) video How to Work Together ( , 2019) video Motivating Employees Without Fear ( ) text Scribd (S06) How Tikhon Got into Y Combinator Twice ( , 2016) video The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces ( , 2017) video 2007 Justin.tv/Twitch (W07) The story of a serial entrepreneur ( , 2012) video The Value of Terrible Ideas ( , 2014) video Justin Kan's Story ( , 2021) video Yale Program on Entrepreneurship ( , 2015) video Justin Kan made $1B from Twitch by Live Streaming his Life ( , 2021) video How Twitch Reached $1,000,000/Month in Revenue ( , 2021) video How We Chose The Name Twitch ( , 2021) video How we ALMOST sold Twitch to Google for $1 BILLION ( , 2021) video Selling Twitch to Amazon...the real story ( , 2021) video What Did I Spend My Money On After Selling Twitch and Investing ( , 2021) video Do I regret selling Twitch? ( , 2021) video Weebly (W07) Interview with Jessica Livingston ( , 2010) video How To Find Product Market Fit ( , 2018) video Disqus (S07) Interview with Disqus - Part 1 ( , 2008) video Interview with Disqus - Part 2: The Y Combinator Experience ( , 2008) video Why Disqus Founder Daniel Ha Chose Name First, Idea Later ( , 2011) text Daniel Ha Founder of Disqus ( , 2011) video 9 lessons on the path to reaching a billion readers ( , 2014) text How 2 Students Grew Their Startup Idea Into an 8-Figure Business ( , 2016) audio Q&A With Disqus Founder Daniel Ha: 'We Weren't a Rocket-Like Startup' ( , 2017) text How Commenting App Disqus Makes $20m+ Annually ( , 2018) audio Dropbox (S07) Interview with Jessica Livingston ( , 2010) video Drew Houston on Being Rejected from YC ( , 2017) video Congrats Dropbox! ( , 2018) text (text, video, 2017) On Starting and Scaling Dropbox Dropbox's original YC application 2008 Snaptalent (W08) So, you got a Y Combinator interview, now what? ( , 2009) text Trigger (W08) Mental model for product management: a way to classify features ( , 2014) text Posterous (S08) Interview with Jessica Livingston ( , 2010) video Design for Startups by Garry Tan ( , 2018) video Applying to Y Combinator? 3 tips from a former YC partner ( , 2019) video 3 Tips to Nail the Y Combinator Interview ( , 2019) video My $200 million startup mistake: Peter Thiel asked and I said no ( , 2019) video How I got into Y Combinator ( , 2020) video Co-Founder Conflict & Why I Quit my Startup ( , 2021) video 2009 AirBnB (W09) Interview with Jessica Livingston ( , 2010) video Brian Chesky - Startup School 2010 ( ) video Airbnb's Surprising Path to Y Combinator ( , 2017) text An Unbelievable Journey ( , 2017) text Mixpanel (S09) (text, 2018) Acquiring your first 100 customers (text, 2018) The first 18 months of starting a company: it's life or death (text, 2018) Here's what I learned when I became "CEO" at 20 (text, 2018) Let's talk about fundraising (text, 2018) How to approach someone to be your mentor (text, 2018) Decisions, decisions. It gets harder as a company grows Mixpanel's Y Combinator application in 2009 This pitch deck got our startup a $865M valuation Stripe (S09) Running Your Company by Patrick Collison ( , 2018) video 2010 Creative Market (W10) The Pre-launch Strategy That Got 70,000 Users In 9 Months for Creative Market ( , 2015) audio How To Make Your YC Application Stand Out ( , 2016) text Advice for New Managers ( , 2016) text Launching Creative Market: Our Playbook for Kickstarting a Marketplace ( , 2017) text Creative Market's Core Values, and the "3 Shits" That Shape Our Culture ( , 2018) text What Happens When You Stop Second Guessing & Trust Your Instincts ( ) audio 7 Proven Strategies for Launching an Online Marketplace ( ) audio YC SUS: Aaron Epstein and Eric Migicovsky give website feedback ( , 2020) video Seeing Interactive/OwnLocal (W10) How we got into Y Combinator ( , 2018) text Read Our YC Application Application video Rapportive (S10) Having a launched product is hard ( , 2010) text What's so special about Y Combinator? ( , 2011) text My FounderLY interview ( , , , 2011) video1 video2 text Opzi (S10) Euwyn, Ruby, and Ramen ( , 2011) text What I Learned From My Y Combinator Experience ( , 2018) text Crowdbooster (S10) Y Combinator is over, now what? ( , 2010) text Crowdbooster boosts effective social media to new levels ( , 2011) text Privilege and inequality in Silicon Valley ( , 2016) text Should you apply to YC? YES, but here's one reason why you shouldn't ( , 2011) text Fanvibe (S10) Y Combinator Experience ( , 2010) text 2011 Vidyard (S11) Vidyard: How a YC startup is using YouTube to sell its own video hosting solution ( , 2011) text How One Founder's Wedding Day Call Led To Millions In Funding From A Top VC ( , 2015) text May the $35M be with you, says Battery Ventures to Vidyard in Series C funding ( , 2016) text Vidyard's Michael Litt on Building a Startup Ecosystem in Waterloo ( , 2018) text From Selling Firecrackers To Landing $70 Million For His Canadian Startup ( , , 2018) audio text "Imposter Syndrome Is Real And Nothing To Be Ashamed Of" ( , 2018) text Processes Before Velocity: Why Your 100th Employee Will Change Your Company ( , , 2020) audio text History Segment (S11) Success Without A Diploma: How 3 MIT Dropouts Made It Big ( , 2017) text From Show HN to Series D ( , 2019) text PMF ( t, 2019) twit How MIT college kids founded multibillion-dollar company Segment ( , 2020) text May 5, 2011 to Oct 12, 2020 — 9 years, 5 months to build a $3.2B SaaS company ( t, 2020) twit Parse (S11) How Tikhon Got into Y Combinator Twice ( , 2016) video The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces ( , 2017) video 2012 Muse (W12) Female Founder Stories: Kathryn Minshew and Alex Cavoulacos ( ) text One-Minute Pressure Cooker: The Muse's Pitch ( , 2013) video Kathryn Minshew at Startup School NY 2014 ( ) video 7 Classic Startup Founder Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them) ( , 2015) video What Kathryn Minshew, Co-Founder of The Muse, Learned From an Earlier Failure ( , 2018) text (2018) A Q&A With Kathryn Minshew, The Muse The Muse's Successful Application to Y Combinator (W12) The Muse Y Combinator W12 Application video PlanGrid (W12) Founder Stories: Tracy Young of PlanGrid (YC W12) ( , 2014) text Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People ( , , 2019) text video CoinBase (S12) (2021) Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Cryptocurrency and the Future of Decentralization Coinbase Listing: The Journey From Y Combinator to Nasdaq ( , 2021) text (text, 2012) Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (video, 2012) Coinbase YCombinator Demo Day Practice Mattermost (S12) Redpoint Founders Series: Ian Tien, Mattermost ( , 2020) video Mattermost's Journey ( , 2021) text The Mattermost Origin Story ( , 2021) text Referly/Mattermark (S12) Time to Say Goodbye Seattle, Hello San Francisco ( , 2010) text Timeline: Starting Referly Took Me Three Years ( , 2012) text Thoughts On YC Interview Prep ( , 2013) text Zombie Startups (text, 2013) Is My Startup Burn Rate Normal? ( , 2014) text Are you Managing the Signals Your Startup is Sending? ( , 2014) text Female Founder Stories: Danielle Morrill, Founder of Mattermark ( , 2015) text For Seed Stage Startups, It's Hire or Die ( , 2015) text The Creative Destruction of Building and Growing a Career ( , 2016) audio Danielle Morrill's guide to the galaxy ( , 2016) text How Mattermark Acquired Early Users ( , 2016) video Insights From A YC Alum On How To Prepare For The Y Combinator Interview ( , 2017) text Mattermark YC Application Soylent (S12) How to Make Good Decisions (according to science) ft. @John Coogan ( , 2021) video 9 Y Combinator Secrets To Grow Your Business ( , 2021) video How This Tweet Got Me $2 MILLION For My Startup ( , 2021) video Y Combinator | How I Got In - TWICE! | 2021 Application & Interview Process Explained ( , 2021) video Eligible (S12) To get something great, you must risk something good ( , 2014) text Almost dead ( , 2015) text Why one of the only women to go through Y Combinator twice moved her company to NYC ( , 2017) text How I Risked Everything To Build A $20M Company In 3 Years ( , 2018) text Eligible Sales Plan & Compensation Letter ( , 2018) text My Journey from Struggling Actress to Successful Tech CEO ( , 2019) text Interview with Katelyn Gleason — CEO and Founder of Eligible ( , 2019) text Why I started a company to feel less lonely in the world ( , 2019) text Brave not perfect ( , 2019) text Female Founder Stories: Katelyn Gleason, Founder of Eligible ( ) text YCombinator S12 Demo Day ( , 2012) video 2013 InfluxData (W13) My Journey to InfluxData ( , 2016) text Journey to CEO, again ( , , 2021) audio text Prizeo (W13) Y Combinator Lessons Learnt by Andrej Pancik ( , 2013) video Represent Stories — Andrej Pančík ( , 2016) text Strikingly (W13) How A YCombinator Startup Is Born: The Story Of Strikingly ( , 2013) text How to get into Y Combinator –- the No BS Approach ( , 2016) text Strikingly – Out of Failure, a Star is Born ( , 2016) text Zenefits (W13) How a series of humiliating events led to one of the fastest-growing startups EVER ( , 2015) text Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup. Then It Self-Disrupted ( , 2016) text How to Raise Money with Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, and Parker Conrad ( , 2017) video How to Build Multi-Million Dollar Companies ( , , 2017) text video Parker Conrad's hard-won billion dollar startup lessons ( , , , 2020) text video video2 The Comeback Of A Fallen Tech Unicorn CEO ( , 2020) text The One Thing Everyone Knows About Building a Startup is Wrong with Parker Conrad (Rippling) ( , 2021) video Parker Conrad: 'I like working with people who have a chip on their shoulder' ( , 2021) text Watsi (W13) The Story Behind the Launch of Crowdfunding for Operations Startup Watsi ( , 2015) video Q&A with Watsi ( , 2015) video How Watsi is Crowdfunding Universal Healthcare By Personalizing Human Connections ( , 2015) video Grace Garey Speaks at Female Founders Conference ( , 2015) video Founder Stories: Grace Garey ( ) text Ways we work ( ) text Hack to start ( , 2015) audio The technology of transparency ( , 2015) text If fundraising is broken, fix it! How Watsi became the first Y Combinator non-profit ( , 2015) text What Startups Can Learn from Watsi's Wildly Successful Email Campaign ( ) text Lollipuff (W13) Female Founder Stories: Fei Deyle ( , 2015) text From electrical engineer to Y Combinator fashion startup founder ( , 2019) text Lollipuff's Y Combinator Application Video Lollipuff @ Y Combinator Demo Day (W13) DoorDash (S13) (video, 2021) The Road to IPO (video, 2014) Lecture 8 - How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, Press (video) DoorDash's Application Video for YC S13 (video) DoorDash at YC Summer 2013 Demo Day URX (S13) 1 year, 11 months at Google University ( , 2013) text People and Pine Cones- URX's Y Combinator Story ( , 2013) text 7 lessons learned growing from 4 to 20 people ( , 2015) text Good Idea, Bad Startup ( , 2015) video How to ace your YC interview ( , 2016) text My biggest product strategy lesson learned from operating and selling URX (YC S13) ( , 2017) text How startups can avoid flawed decision making ( , 2021) text 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Began Leading My Company ( , 2021) text Standard Treasury (S13) Getting in to YC (text, 2013) Advice on the YC Application (text, 2013) A (Successful) YC S13 Application (text, 2013) Building A Founding Team at Standard Treasury (text, 2013) Five Lessons from Building A Great Core Team at Standard Treasury (text, 2013) Going Through Y Combinator (S13): Nine Lessons Learned (text, 2013) Standard Treasury's Series A Pitch Deck (text, 2015) Founders and Mental Health (text, 2014) Mental Health, Trauma, and Startup Founders (text, 2014) My Mental Health Story: Depression, Plagiarism, and Analysis (text, 2014) Watchsend (S13) How I learned to code ( , 2013) text Y Combinator applicant advice ( , 2013) text Insights from 6 hours of YC Mock Interviews ( , 2013) text Asseta (S13) What to Do If You Don't Have a Technical Cofounder ( , 2020) text Advice for My Son ( , 2020) text 32 Questions Founders Should Ask Investors ( , 2020) text Should You Quit Your Job and Start a Company? ( , 2020) text What's the Tempo of Your Start-up? ( , 2020) text Team Spotlight: Anton Brevde ( , 2020) text When to Hire a Chief of Staff? ( , 2020) text The Expert Problem ( , 2020) text Conquering Imposter Syndrome ( , 2020) text Move Fast and Don't Break Things ( , 2020) text High Expectations vs. Happiness ( , 2021) text Asseta Y Combinator Demo Day One Month (S13) How a Non-technical Solo Founder Got Into Y Combinator ( , 2013) text What is Y Combinator Like? ( , 2014) text Y Combinator and The One Metric that Matters ( , , 2014) text video How to get a busy person to respond to your email ( , 2014) text How to get into Y Combinator ( , 2015) text One Month's Y Combinator Application ( , 2013) text WebFlow (S13) How Webflow got into Y Combinator ( , 2015) text From freelancer to founder: an interview with Webflow's CEO Vlad Magdalin ( , 2019) video Grew no-code startup to $20M in rev, pioneering Pegasus movement ( , 2019) video Founder Interview ( , 2020) video The Future is No-Code ( , 2020) video How Webflow went from almost bankrupt to building a no-code empire ( , 2020) text Building an Enduring Company, One Hard Lesson at a Time ( , 2021) video Quarterly community update and live Q&A with Vlad: Q3 2021 ( , 2021) video 2014 Emailio (W14) Emailio, A Y Combinator Productivity Startup, Fixes Your Bad Email Habits ( , 2020) text The Story of Martin Stoyanov -a Y Combinator Participant with a Mission to Disrupt the Way we Use Email ( , 2020) text Zinc (W14) How I "failed" at a YC startup, worked at early Stripe, and then raised $20M ( , 2021) text SketchDeck (W14) A company is just a belief engine ( , 2014) text Advice for first-time founders ( , 2015) text How to brand your startup (text, ) 2015 The Art of Shipping Early and Often ( , 2016) text Managing your cofounder relationship for the long run ( , 2016) text Letting your engineers choose what to build ( , 2017) text What I wish I knew when I became CTO ( , 2018) text Growth almost killed our company ( , 2019) text SketchDeck CMO David Mack: Giving Feedback; How To Be Honest Without Being Hurtful ( , 2020) text SketchDeck's Y Combinator W14 application Clear (W14) How Delhi-Based Startup ClearTax Made It to Y Combinator ( , 2014) text Here's why Indian startups must apply to Y Combinator ( , 2015) text Archit Gupta of ClearTax On Cracking YCombinator ( , 2016) video How ClearTax's Archit Gupta Found Mentors In Y Combinator And Paytm Founder ( , 2016) text Y Combinator is like a B-school that helps develop a global peer network, says alumnus Archit Gupta ( , 2016) text The first India-focused startup in Y Combinator, this dropout's venture files 3 per cent of India's tax today ( , 2016) email archit@cleartax.in) text From 1K Customers In First 11 Days To 1 Mn Today: ClearTax's Journey Post The YCombinator Stamp Of Approval ( , 2016) text Cruise (W14) The Story of Cruise (YC W14): How 4 people built a self driving car in 7 months. ( , 2014) text Life Tips from Kyle Vogt of Cruise at Disrupt SF ( , 2016) video The Startup That Could Help GM Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car ( , 2016) text Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation | Lex Fridman Podcast #14 ( , , 2019) video text Y Combinator Application Rickshaw (W14) Female Founder Stories: Divya Bhat, Founder of Rickshaw (YC W14) ( , 2015) text ProductHunt (S14) A Hopeful Applicant's Y Combinator Experience ( , 2011) text Product Hunt Began as an Email List ( , 2013) text The 20-Minute MVP ( , 2014) text YC + PH ( , 2014) text Making Product Hunt ( , 2014) text How We Got Our First 2,000 Users Doing Things That Don't Scale ( , 2014) text 3 Pieces of Advice for YC Applicants ( , 2014) text "Should I apply to YC?" ( , 2014) text How To Build World's #1 Product Launch Platform with a Globally Distributed Team: An Interview With the Founder of Product Hunt ( , 2018) text 5 Years of Product Hunt ( , 2018) text How we made our first dollar at Product Hunt ( , 2018) text Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell ( , 2019) video Ryan Hoover on Startups, Success and Staying Curious ( , 2020) text Ginkgo Bioworks (S14) (video, 2021) Engineering A Better Future (video, 2021) Interview: Jason Kelly CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks (video, 2021) Jason Kelly of Ginkgo Bioworks, a Synthetic Biology Co. That's Starting a New Industrial Revolution (video) Ginkgo Bioworks at YC Summer 2014 Demo Day Snappr (S14) What the Y Combinator experience actually looks like ( ) text Kicking off with a snapshot of ... ourselves! And our YC story so far ( ) text Snappr YC Demo Day Pitch - Opening Front (S14) A month at Y Combinator: What it's like after you've been accepted ( , 2014) text Mathilde Collin, Front — Founder Story ( , 2018) text Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front ( , 2018) video After PMF: People, Customers, Sales by Mathilde Collin ( , 2018) video Take a look into Front's Journey to get into Y Combinator ( , 2020) text Tinker (S14) A simple method to prepare for an interview at YCombinator ( , 2017) text A Simple Method to Prepare for an Interview at YCombinator — Updated 2020 ( , 2020) text Aptible (S14) How to Get Into Y Combinator ( , 2014) text Zen99 (S14) Why You Should Apply to Y Combinator ( , 2015) text How to Prepare for the Y Combinator Interview ( , 2015) text Shout (S14) Our Journey To and Through YC ( , 2014) text 2015 Staffjoy (YCF 15) Insights from the creators of Staffjoy ( , 2015) text Staffjoy founders on the Y Combinator Fellowship experience ( , 2016) text Denouement ( , 2017) text Staffjoy's Pitch Decks That Raised $1.7M Staffjoy's YC Fellowship Application HigherMe (W15) "Hi! My name is Rob, and I used to own 7 ice cream stores." ( , 2015) text Almost Inconceivable: Startups, Planning, Long Odds, and Babies ( , 2017) text Don't Burn Money Linearly ( , 2018) text Lessons learned through raising $1,000,000 from angel investors ( , 2018) text Your chances of getting into Y Combinator are not 1 in 100 ( , 2018) text From Ice Cream to Y Combinator: An Interview With Rob Hunter ( , 2020) text Gradberry/Tara AI (W15) From Dubai to Buffalo: The journey of Iba Masood ( , 2018) text Raising a Series A as a Female Founder ( , 2019) video A framework on how to find the force multiplier co-founder ( , 2019) text How to setup company culture and core values at your early-stage startup ( , 2020) text Cleanly (W15) Itay Forer of Cleanly shares his Y Combinator Journey ( , 2021) text Flip (W15) Is Silicon Valley's Pioneering Sneakerhead ( , 2016) text Silicon Valley Insights ( , 2016) text How Building A Sneaker Marketplace Answered A Billion $ Question ( , 2019) video Flip (YC W2015) Application Video Gitlab (W15) GitLab from YC to IPO ( , 2021) text Our Y Combinator experience ( , 2016) text What Founders Ask Founders About Getting Into Y Combinator ( , 2016) text Gitlab's Secret to Managing 160 Employees in 160 Locations ( , 2017) video GitLab's Application for Y Combinator Winter 2015 ( , 2016) text GitLab Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2015 ( ) video GitLab Y Combinator Alumni Demo Day Winter 2015 ( ) video Gitlab history ( ) text Replika (W15) Friendship with an AI Companion | Lex Fridman Podcast #121 ( , 2020) video Speak, Memory ( , 2016) text 80 000 hours (S15) What's it like being a nonprofit in Y Combinator? ( , 2015) text How can founders improve their social skills? ( , 2017) text A Guide to Machine Learning PhDs ( , 2017) text Application New Story (S15) How New Story Got Into Y Combinator ( , 2015) text What's It Like Being a NonProfit in Y Combinator? Five Questions with New Story CEO Brett Hagler ( , 2015) text 3D Home Printing for the Developing World – Alexandria Lafci and Brett Hagler of New Story Charity ( , 2018) video New Story YC Demo Day 2015 Shotput (S15) The Hack that got me into Y Combinator ( , 2019) text How I got the Y Combinator interview 46 days late ( , 2019) text My First Y Combinator Application that got me the interview ( , 2019) text Pitching a bunch of millionaires for 10 minutes ( , 2019) text Derivative/d Y Combinator 2014 Application Cofactor Genomics (S15) YC Backs Cofactor Genomics To Pursue RNA Testing, Which Could Offer Better Diagnoses Than DNA (text, 2015) ( , 2015) how-to-apply-to-y-combinator text Lessons Learned from Cofactor's Y Combinator Experience 7-months later ( , 2016) text ScentBird (S15) Сulture is Something That Works When Your Policy Fails ( , 2020) text How to Manage a Team of 43 Developers in Different Time Zones ( , 2020) text How many programmers does it take to sell perfume on the Internet? ( , 2020) text 2016 Boom (W16) (text) On Starting and Scaling Boom (video, 2016) E638: Blake Scholl, CEO & Founder of Boom, resurrects the dream of the supersonic passenger airplane (video, 2019) Blake Scholl on supersonic airplanes and how he built a $1B company (video, 2019) RTCA 2019 Symposium: 02 Opening Keynote: Boom Supersonic With Blake Scholl (video, 2020) Building a supersonic jet startup with Blake Scholl - Podcast Ep 1 Revl (W16) Revl, Interview with CEO Eric Sanchez ( , 2016) text There and Back Again. A Journey With Revl Arc ( , 2017) text Revl Deck Crowdfunder Outschool (W16) Outschooling in the Bay Area ( , 2015) text What I learned from my father ( , 2017) text Outschool co-founder Amir Nathoo | Top tips for startups ( , 2017) text My journey to founding Outschool ( , 2017) text Instabug (W16) Political Turmoil Leaves Cofounders of Egypt-based Instabug in Limbo ( , 2013) text What it's like to build a startup in a country that's rebuilding itself ( , 2015) text ArabConnect: Omar Gabr discusses SoLoMo ( , 2015) video 6 Reasons Why In-App Feedback Is A Must While Beta Testing ( , 2015) text How to Launch Your Mobile App in 16 Steps ( , 2015) text Lessons 10 Years On ( , 2018) video Instabug Untold Stories ( , 2018) text What It's Like Dealing With Silicon Valley Customers From Egypt ( , 2019) text How to Find Over 200+ Beta Testers for Free ( , 2019) text Serendipitous discovery ( , 2020) video Paystack (W16) Paystack's Y Combinator Application ( , 2017) text How to put together a strong Y Combinator application ( , 2018) text Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack ( , , 2018) video text Building from Ground Up ( , 2020) video Superside (W16) How We Got into Y Combinator ( , 2016) text What to Expect as an International Founder at Y Combinator ( , 2016) text What is Superside? How is it Different from a Design Agency or Freelance Marketplace? ( , 2020) video GetAccept (W16) Our story From Malmö to Silicon Valley in less than two years - the story of GetAccept ( , 2017) text How 4 Swedes got their SaaS accepted into Y Combinator while still at $0 MRR ( , 2019) text 5 Things You Need To Know To Create a Successful App or SaaS ( , 2021) text Secure Series B and build a global business in Malmö ( , , 2021) video text GetAccept - YC W'16 Demo Day LendEDU (W16) How LendEDU made it into Y Combinator on their second try ( , 2016) text How LendEDU Raised the Most Valuable Seed Round Imaginable with Y Combinator ( , 2019) text Innov8 (S16) Founder Stories: Ritesh Malik of Innov8 ( , 2017) text Founder Mindset - Fundamental for startups ( , 2020) video Startup Journey from 0-200Cr ( , 2021) video Innov8 pitch in Ycombinator [PITCH ANALYSIS] Innov8 Coworking at theY Combinator Demo Day SS'16 Iris Automation (S16) Iris Automation gives drones situational awareness, making autonomous delivery a reality ( , 2016) text The story of how two college friends joined forces to disrupt an industry with Iris Automation ( , 2019) text Burrow (S16) Burrow is Casper for Designer Sofas ( , 2016) text How I Raised It with Stephen Kuhl of Burrow.com ( , 2018) audio The Story of How a Sofa Startup Got Into Y Combinator with Just a Pitch Deck ( , 2019) text How 'Couch In a Box' Company Burrow Leveraged Big and Small Investors for a $4.3 Million Seed Round ( , 2019) text Burrow CEO Stephen Kuhl: The shift to e-commerce is here to stay ( , 2020) text Lendsnap (S16) Lendsnap Lets You Apply for a Mortgage in Under 30 Minutes ( , 2016) text The True Story of How Orion Willow Got Lendsnap Accepted Into Y Combinator ( , 2019) text Suiteness (S16) Founder Interviews: Kyle Killion of Suiteness ( , 2019) text Kyle Killion's story of getting Suiteness into Y Combinator along with tips on how to apply ( , 2019) text Jumpcut (S16) #11: Kong Pham - Jumpcut - Y Combinator Alumni Interviews (YC S16) ( , 2020) audio How I Raised $2 Million From Investors (My YC Demo Day Pitch Breakdown) ( , 2020) video Entrepreneur Gains#11 - Kong Pham - Jumpcut (Y Combinator S16) ( , 2020) video Prior YouTube Star Launches Startup and Does $12M in Sales! ( , 2020) video Kong Pham on Y Combinator and unconventional business strategies? ( , 2021) video Going viral & dating tips (we got DEEP!) with YouTuber (Simple Pickup) turned YC founder ( , 2021) video Nova Credit (S16) Founder Stories: Nicky Goulimis of Nova Credit ( , 2017) text Path to Y Combinator Acceptance and Beyond ( , 2019) text Immigrants - A Conversation with Nicky Goulimis ( , 2019) video How to scale and expand, the journey of a female founder ( , 2020) video How Effective is Fintech in Reducing Inequality ( , 2020) video Nicky Goulimis | The Breakfast Show US ( , 2020) video Interview with Nicky Goulimis ( , 2020) video Saleswhale (S16) What the Y Combinator experience is like, according to 4 graduates ( , 2018) text Singapore's Saleswhale raises $5.3M to bring AI to sales and marketing teams ( , 2019) text The Y Combinator Alum who returned to Singapore to build Saleswhale ( , , 2019) text audio I'm a CEO and this is what I care about from Marketing ( , 2020) text What is Collaborative Intelligence? 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