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Hey folks, really excited about this change. I’ve been wanting to make Startup School a continuous program for years, but it took a while to get all the right p

Hey folks, really excited about this change. I’ve been wanting to make Startup School a continuous program for years, but it took a while to get all the right pieces in place. Here to answer any questions you may have!

tosh 6y ago
love the streak concept, also enjoyed it at pioneer on individual level looking fwd to startup school & sharing with a few friends starting out!
ipnon 6y ago
What were your initial expectations for Startup School? Where do you see Startup School in 2030? Thank you for this work, I've gained interesting and profitable lessons from the program.
- kcorbitt 6y ago
  Initial expectations: we expected Startup School to be very popular with founders, and in the long term also hopefully encourage more founders to apply to YC's core program. It modestly exceeded our expectations on the former (we've seen over 100k users sign up in the last two years), and has vastly exceeded expectations on the latter. Concretely, in the latest YC core batch 44% of founders are Startup School alums. That's a far higher percentage than we were expecting at this point! In 2030: no idea! Directionally though, I'd like to migrate all the "scalable" parts of YC (1-to-many lectures/writing, investor/founder matching, community, accountability) to Startup School where they'll be freely available to everyone, while leaving the unscalable parts (eg. 1-to-1 advice with partners, big checks) in the core program.
  - ipnon 6y ago
    Wow, that's really an impressive idea (VCaaS?). Thanks for your response.
  - sytse 6y ago
    This is awesome! I love that there a groups later in Startup School that are for later stage companies. I can see a progression where based on the stage and growth of your company you get different peers, investors, advisors, and off the record content.
    - kcorbitt 6y ago
      Totally. We're making some early moves in this direction with a private forum channel for companies that self-identify as growth stage, but we'd like to take this a lot further.

tosh 6y ago

love the streak concept, also enjoyed it at pioneer on individual level looking fwd to startup school & sharing with a few friends starting out!

ipnon 6y ago

What were your initial expectations for Startup School? Where do you see Startup School in 2030? Thank you for this work, I've gained interesting and profitable lessons from the program.

kcorbitt 6y ago
Initial expectations: we expected Startup School to be very popular with founders, and in the long term also hopefully encourage more founders to apply to YC's core program. It modestly exceeded our expectations on the former (we've seen over 100k users sign up in the last two years), and has vastly exceeded expectations on the latter. Concretely, in the latest YC core batch 44% of founders are Startup School alums. That's a far higher percentage than we were expecting at this point! In 2030: no idea! Directionally though, I'd like to migrate all the "scalable" parts of YC (1-to-many lectures/writing, investor/founder matching, community, accountability) to Startup School where they'll be freely available to everyone, while leaving the unscalable parts (eg. 1-to-1 advice with partners, big checks) in the core program.
- ipnon 6y ago
  Wow, that's really an impressive idea (VCaaS?). Thanks for your response.
- sytse 6y ago
  This is awesome! I love that there a groups later in Startup School that are for later stage companies. I can see a progression where based on the stage and growth of your company you get different peers, investors, advisors, and off the record content.
  - kcorbitt 6y ago
    Totally. We're making some early moves in this direction with a private forum channel for companies that self-identify as growth stage, but we'd like to take this a lot further.