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Re:Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding ... by pg on Thursday January 26, 2012 @02:34PM (#3515571)
Yes, we often fund groups' later applications. Dropbox was Drew Houston's second application. I believe PagerDuty was those guys' fourth.
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Re:Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding ... by chargrilled on Thursday January 26, 2012 @04:57PM (#3516172)
Were they rejected at the application or interview stage?

Have you had many groups accepted after being rejected at interview stage?

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Re:Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding ... by pg on Thursday January 26, 2012 @05:05PM (#3516193)
We've funded people we previously rejected at both stages. I don't think we interviewed Drew the first time. I believe we interviewed the PagerDuties 3 times out of the 4 they applied.
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Re:Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding ... by chargrilled on Thursday January 26, 2012 @05:50PM (#3516334)
I was under the impression that for YC the the idea was less important than the team.

How did the teams change between rejection and acceptance?

Was a different idea enough to consider them in a different light or is the interview process just sufficiently noisy that they were false negatives earlier?

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