Good question. Although I was worried about the team, I think we did a good job of pulling together for the interview. One of the concerns in our practice inte

Good question. Although I was worried about the team, I think we did a good job of pulling together for the interview. One of the concerns in our practice interviews (with YC alums) was that I was doing too much of the talking. In the YC interview, I did about half the talking, each of my cofounders about a quarter, which I think is about right for a team of three; you want there to be a leader, but you also want the other guys to have their own opinions and areas of expertise. We noted who did what on the demo, and one of my cofounders did the actual presentation on his laptop. So I think the tension—or at least the lack of experience working together under pressure—came across in the application, but not the interview. If the application had said "We used to work on X, Y, and Z, and here are our complementary skill sets, and we worked together before on this other project," my hunch is that we would've been funded. Instead it boiled down to: "We're three students with little experience outside of academia. We're passionate about design, but we can't actually show you anything we've designed. We came together because Trevor sent out an email asking for cofounders." We would've had to absolutely knock the interview out of the park to overcome those things.