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"...Michael Seibel is a professional hater. I've never been denied so consistently by such a charming, kind, and basically snuggly person." Haha, chuckled at t

by bcopa 5y ago

"...Michael Seibel is a professional hater. I've never been denied so consistently by such a charming, kind, and basically snuggly person." Haha, chuckled at this. YC was perhaps the only interview in which my co-founder and I felt like the interviewers were incredible kind – but also some of the most challenging ones. We loved it!

m_ke 5y ago
We had two rounds of interviews and I'm pretty confident that Michael was the reason why we ended up getting rejected but I'll always love him for how blunt he was with us about not launching sooner (it's a mobile app that uses computer vision, he claimed we should have launched before the ML models were ready and was completely right) Our interview was on election day in 2016, they called us in for a second interview, we then went out for drinks with a bunch of other founders and watched all of them get email responses that day. We didn't hear back all day and stayed up all night watching the election results come in, then woke up, drove to the airport, took the plane back to NYC and finally got the rejection when we landed.
- no_butterscotch 5y ago
  > but I'll always love him for how blunt he was with us about not launching sooner (it's a mobile app that uses computer vision, he claimed we should have launched before the ML models were ready and was completely right) Is this advice to always launch sooner still applicable? I've heard it regurgitated a few times over the past decade or so, especially here and from the YC/VC crowd, and I feel like it made sense at some point. But nowadays do people not expect a little bit more? The field is more crowded and the bar to entry is much lower for competitors/cloners/etc and your first impression can only be made once.
  - ZephyrBlu 5y ago
    I've also contemplated this, and the conclusion I've reached is that YC expects the problem you're solving to be so painful that will people will put up with a shitty version. It doesn't matter that it's 2021 and things have gotten more polished. If it's a painful enough problem people will put up with a shitty solution at first.

by bcopa 5y ago

m_ke 5y ago

We had two rounds of interviews and I'm pretty confident that Michael was the reason why we ended up getting rejected but I'll always love him for how blunt he was with us about not launching sooner (it's a mobile app that uses computer vision, he claimed we should have launched before the ML models were ready and was completely right) Our interview was on election day in 2016, they called us in for a second interview, we then went out for drinks with a bunch of other founders and watched all of them get email responses that day. We didn't hear back all day and stayed up all night watching the election results come in, then woke up, drove to the airport, took the plane back to NYC and finally got the rejection when we landed.

no_butterscotch 5y ago
> but I'll always love him for how blunt he was with us about not launching sooner (it's a mobile app that uses computer vision, he claimed we should have launched before the ML models were ready and was completely right) Is this advice to always launch sooner still applicable? I've heard it regurgitated a few times over the past decade or so, especially here and from the YC/VC crowd, and I feel like it made sense at some point. But nowadays do people not expect a little bit more? The field is more crowded and the bar to entry is much lower for competitors/cloners/etc and your first impression can only be made once.
- ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  I've also contemplated this, and the conclusion I've reached is that YC expects the problem you're solving to be so painful that will people will put up with a shitty version. It doesn't matter that it's 2021 and things have gotten more polished. If it's a painful enough problem people will put up with a shitty solution at first.