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The question I wanted them to ask is "How do you identify great founders?". Every question they asked led to "YC picks founders, not the business". If it's all
by teej 15y ago
The question I wanted them to ask is "How do you identify great founders?". Every question they asked led to "YC picks founders, not the business". If it's all about the people, I want to hear more about how he evaluates them.
- earbitscom 15y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
- jseliger 15y agoFortunately, he wrote a whole essay on that very subject: http://paulgraham.com/founders.html http://paulgraham.com/founders.html . It's the fourth from the top on his "Essays" page: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html http://paulgraham.com/articles.html .
- hzay 15y agoI felt he deliberately did not go into this topic. He was asked "How do you pick ~60 out of ~2000 applications?", and his entire response could be paraphrased as "We have practice". It made me wonder if it was because he thought it was too complex a topic for a quick TV show.
- pg 15y agoI wrote about how I read applications here: http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801739 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801739
- hzay 15y agoI wasn't suggesting that you were unwilling to divulge this information. I meant that I felt you did not wish to discuss it in that forum.
- someperson 15y agoSemi-related: The YC application for Dropbox from the link above seems to have been taken down. Does anyone have a mirror?
- pg 15y agohttp://bit.ly/dropbox-yc-app http://bit.ly/dropbox-yc-app
- someperson 15y agoThanks Paul.