Y Combinator
Talks, founder interviews and essays from the accelerator, free to watch and read.
Why it matters
Benedict was watching YC podcasts before Knowunity existed. It's also where the first team took their job titles from, which he now describes as fairly random. Max and his co-founders were doing the same thing from the other side of the batch list, until friends of theirs got in and it stopped being an abstraction.
How to use it
Treat it as company-building input, not a template. The founder interviews age better than the operational advice.
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Benedict Kurz
From Tennis Pro to Europe's biggest Learning App
Benedict was training six hours a day to turn pro. Then he launched an app from his grandfather's basement, and never got on the plane to Tunisia.
Maximilian Arnold
Five Days from an Idea to a YC Application
Max spent his whole life collecting side quests. Five days before the YC deadline, he and his two co-founders started writing the application that turned one of them into the main quest.