Ask PG: YC Talent Pool?

Posted by chamza on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @01:27PM
from the self-post dept.

Was wondering if you or the folks at YC have thought of this. I know Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners both have talent pools, where they connect interested developers and designers to startups they have funded.

As someone who is transitioning from being a student to wanting to work with a small team full-time, I would personally love to be a part of a talent pool that could connect me to promising startups funded by YC that are in need of my skills.

I also know a lot of the companies funded by YC are also looking to expand their teams and may have difficulty recruiting talent; so I think it’d be something beneficial for both sides. Have you all ever thought of trying something like this?

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Re:Ask PG: YC Talent Pool? by pg on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @02:01PM (#4724206)

YC itself is effectively that. The good people from the startups that fail get picked up by the others. We also run http://workatastartup.org.

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Re:Ask PG: YC Talent Pool? by mitchellwfox on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @08:47PM (#4725613)

Have you checked out the "jobs" section here on HN? http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

It's obviously a one-way tool and what you're describing is two-way, but it's a start.

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Re:Ask PG: YC Talent Pool? by 46Bit on Thursday November 01, 2012 @09:29PM (#4730780)

There is something of a talent pool in recommendations between the YC startups. Get involved with one, and you'll probably be able to get more work out of it if you do a good enough job for them to remember it.

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