Hi, I'm interested in how much experience/prelim data you had and how large and experienced your team was when applying to ycombinator with this plan. I applie

Hi, I'm interested in how much experience/prelim data you had and how large and experienced your team was when applying to ycombinator with this plan. I applied with my partner with a similar goal a couple of years ago, and was rejected. The criteria for biotech applications was very vague then, and we tried to keep our pitch as non technical as possible which I think worked against us. Also, do you have an in house gene design method or do you rely on the supplier to optimize? As I see it, the two major obstacles are reaching commercially viable expression yields, and identifying market demand.