How to get into Y Combinator according to the founders that did get in

Re:How to get into Y Combinator according to the founders th... by foti-panagio on Monday September 09, 2019 @12:53PM (#20919875)

After applying myself and not getting in for the S19 batch, I decided to do some research.

What if I just reached out to the founders that actually did get in, and just straight up ask them the nitty gritty questions of how they did it?

So I proceeded to do exactly that.

3 months later, countless hours of interviews, transcribing, and editing, I'm finally done.

https://www.growthmentor.com/blog/post_series/y-combinator/

There are 12 interviews live now but will be adding a few more over the next couple of weeks.

For anyone applying to this next batch, I wish you the best of luck.

Really hope this helps!

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Re:How to get into Y Combinator according to the founders th... by SkyMarshal on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:27AM (#20925579)

Did you account for survivorship bias? Eg, did you also ask a bunch of folks who failed to get in what they did, and examine whether they did all the same things as the successful applicants but just got unlucky?

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

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