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Re:Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding by bfe on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @02:47PM (#4512311)
Drew Houston originally applied as a single founder (and then lined up a talented and committed co-founder) and turned into one of YC's two biggest successes so far, so take heart.
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Re:Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding by pg on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @02:52PM (#4512343)
He filled out the online application as a single founder but he had found Arash by interviews, a few weeks later.
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Re:Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding by pc86 on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @04:38PM (#4513073)
Was Arash central to choosing to invest? What I mean is do you think you would have passed if he hadn't found a co-founder by the interviews?
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Re:Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding by pg on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @07:03PM (#4513756)
I'm pretty sure we'd have funded him anyway. Trevor had tried his prototype and said it was good. The big advantage of Arash (and of good cofounders in general) was not that he got Dropbox through YC interviews but that he helped make the company successful.
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