Re:Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator
by amasad on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:28PM
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Thank you! Try it again now it got a lot better :)
I think it was the fact that we've thought through the big questions of our business, as it were, and are able to show the work: how we arrived at the answers, what clues or experiments to run the validate that we have the right answer, and how we could change course if we didn't have the right answer.
They don't expect to have figured everything out -- after all that's what early stage startups are about. However, they expect you to have thought things through. Like there shouldn't be questions at the interview that are fundamentally new.
Finally, I think keeping composure under pressure helped.
I think it was the fact that we've thought through the big questions of our business, as it were, and are able to show the work: how we arrived at the answers, what clues or experiments to run the validate that we have the right answer, and how we could change course if we didn't have the right answer.
They don't expect to have figured everything out -- after all that's what early stage startups are about. However, they expect you to have thought things through. Like there shouldn't be questions at the interview that are fundamentally new.
Finally, I think keeping composure under pressure helped.