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Is there a live feed of this? Or is there a video of it I can watch after work?

simonw 14y ago
No, YC have never to my knowledge published or recorded video of the pitches. I doubt they would either - it would increase the stress on the participants, and often the investor pitches include commercially sensitive information.
- allsystemsgo 14y ago
  Ah, you're right about the commercially sensitive information.
  - lifeisstillgood 14y ago
    I wonder about "commercially sensitive" as much as "National Security". I often assume they are catch-alls that in a transparent world would be unremarkable, or cause for pressure to fix from stakeholders - I would guess there are very few things a competitor would be able to take advantage of that you could make public about a startup. Its business model? Made public to every customer. Its financial status? Its a start up - the status is terrible by default. Its customer list? If Google is my customer, I am letting you know for sure. Its source code? Yes, but I am not sure that a) that is what most people consider commercially sensitive information (ie its more an asset such as IP) and b) even if we gave the main competitor of WuFoo their git repos, the competitor would probably have to use all of the code to make much use of any of the code. Except maybe grep for swear words in the comments
jcr 14y ago
The YC Demo Day is a private gathering. From descriptions I've read, it's essentially just the founders of the given batch and "accredited investors" (in US legal parlance, I believe "accredited investor" means having a net worth greater than 1 million or a yearly income in excess of 250K, but I'm not a lawyer so I might be wrong). On past Demo Days, at least there was one, trusted, member of the "press" from techcrunch at the event. One of the problems with Demo Day is not all of the companies are publicly announced when it happens and they want to keep working in "stealth mode" while raising capital. Said trusted person from the press is told which companies they can and can't write about. Though the world could probably learn a lot from videos of the pitches on Demo Day, I sincerely doubt they will ever be released to the public.

No, YC have never to my knowledge published or recorded video of the pitches. I doubt they would either - it would increase the stress on the participants, and often the investor pitches include commercially sensitive information.

allsystemsgo 14y ago
Ah, you're right about the commercially sensitive information.
- lifeisstillgood 14y ago
  I wonder about "commercially sensitive" as much as "National Security". I often assume they are catch-alls that in a transparent world would be unremarkable, or cause for pressure to fix from stakeholders - I would guess there are very few things a competitor would be able to take advantage of that you could make public about a startup. Its business model? Made public to every customer. Its financial status? Its a start up - the status is terrible by default. Its customer list? If Google is my customer, I am letting you know for sure. Its source code? Yes, but I am not sure that a) that is what most people consider commercially sensitive information (ie its more an asset such as IP) and b) even if we gave the main competitor of WuFoo their git repos, the competitor would probably have to use all of the code to make much use of any of the code. Except maybe grep for swear words in the comments

jcr 14y ago

The YC Demo Day is a private gathering. From descriptions I've read, it's essentially just the founders of the given batch and "accredited investors" (in US legal parlance, I believe "accredited investor" means having a net worth greater than 1 million or a yearly income in excess of 250K, but I'm not a lawyer so I might be wrong). On past Demo Days, at least there was one, trusted, member of the "press" from techcrunch at the event. One of the problems with Demo Day is not all of the companies are publicly announced when it happens and they want to keep working in "stealth mode" while raising capital. Said trusted person from the press is told which companies they can and can't write about. Though the world could probably learn a lot from videos of the pitches on Demo Day, I sincerely doubt they will ever be released to the public.