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> There are no paid submissions to HN I don't mean to derail your point (because it's valid) but I don't believe this statement is true. YC companies can pay[0

by mbesto 9y ago

> There are no paid submissions to HN I don't mean to derail your point (because it's valid) but I don't believe this statement is true. YC companies can pay[0] to get recruitment posts on the frontpage of HN. [0]Note - I'm almost certain YC companies pay for this in some form (wether by cash or some other form) and would be happy for a YC company to confirm/deny.

tptacek 9y ago
From conversations I've had with YC founders, I do not believe this is the case.
- mbesto 9y ago
  So how exactly do they get recruitment posts on the frontpage?
  - tptacek 9y ago
    All the YC startups get access to a queue of new job postings that run on the site.
    - dhimes 9y ago
      This. To my knowledge it's been a perq of being YC since the beginning- or at least close enough to the beginning that the physics was just becoming stable.
brudgers 9y ago
I think that posting jobs directly to HN is another perk of being a YC company. As noted in the article, the mods can provide a definitive answer. For what it is worth: + I suspect the value of one good hire for one YC company is potentially orders of magnitude more money to YC than whatever it would charge companies multiplied by all the possible times all the YC companies might pay it. + The revenue model of YC does not appear to include charging 'incubation' fees to the companies in its portfolio. To the degree this is true it differentiates YC from many other companies in the business of funding startups in batches and providing early stage support and advice. Again, I suspect this is because YC expects the return value of its investment to correlate with the length of runway a startup has and taking fees shortens the runway. But I am speculating and could be wrong.
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driverdan 9y ago
Job posts are a perk for YC companies. They do not pay for it. IIRC YC companies can submit job postings to a queue and a limited number of them are published per day. Their position slowly decreases over a period of time until they're off the front page.

by mbesto 9y ago

tptacek 9y ago

From conversations I've had with YC founders, I do not believe this is the case.

mbesto 9y ago
So how exactly do they get recruitment posts on the frontpage?
- tptacek 9y ago
  All the YC startups get access to a queue of new job postings that run on the site.
  - dhimes 9y ago
    This. To my knowledge it's been a perq of being YC since the beginning- or at least close enough to the beginning that the physics was just becoming stable.

brudgers 9y ago

I think that posting jobs directly to HN is another perk of being a YC company. As noted in the article, the mods can provide a definitive answer. For what it is worth: + I suspect the value of one good hire for one YC company is potentially orders of magnitude more money to YC than whatever it would charge companies multiplied by all the possible times all the YC companies might pay it. + The revenue model of YC does not appear to include charging 'incubation' fees to the companies in its portfolio. To the degree this is true it differentiates YC from many other companies in the business of funding startups in batches and providing early stage support and advice. Again, I suspect this is because YC expects the return value of its investment to correlate with the length of runway a startup has and taking fees shortens the runway. But I am speculating and could be wrong.

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driverdan 9y ago

Job posts are a perk for YC companies. They do not pay for it. IIRC YC companies can submit job postings to a queue and a limited number of them are published per day. Their position slowly decreases over a period of time until they're off the front page.