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TL;DR -- Luke Iseman, YC's hardware focused Partner founded a hardware startup, which he's now taking through YC as a founder, after having set up a bunch of de
by sethbannon 10y ago
TL;DR -- Luke Iseman, YC's hardware focused Partner founded a hardware startup, which he's now taking through YC as a founder, after having set up a bunch of deals and processes to help hardware startups as a YC Partner.
Seems like pretty good evidence YC is now great at helping hardware startups that he's choosing to go through the program himself.
- cellularmitosis 10y agoOh cool, Luke was a Maker personality in Austin for a while. I remember when he was making his own pedicabs. http://austinpedicab.org/2008/10/06/austin-cronicle-interviews-luke-iseman/ http://austinpedicab.org/2008/10/06/austin-cronicle-intervie...
- patcon 10y agoAustin, eh? I wonder if he's friend or foe with the Kasita guy (ie. Professor Dumpster)...
- covercash 10y agoIt's also a pretty good way to see how those deals and processes actually work from the founder perspective and give valuable feedback to the YC team.
- jeremy_wiebe 10y agoSounds like dogfooding, to me.
- elmar 10y agoLuke is a great person, I love the container houses project, and it's a statement to YC quality that he decided to go trough the program. On the other side, "a full quarter of the current batch are making physical products" and no Hardware focused partners, isn't that a litle strange.