》Strong friendship between founders. No That's their relationship fitting the mission I can work with my enemy, as long as we both are 100% focused on achieving the same goal Working with your enemy is also so much more interesting than working with your friends
Don't fuss over it. I had two cofounders in my previous startup and life was such a pain with wrong cofounders. Needless to say, that startup failed. I have no cofounders now and I feel liberated and more productive, getting things done at faster pace.
Backing just a programmer is dumb. Have you ever met programmers? They are not good business people, your building a business not just a program it’s just the tool. The business model is what must work.
Y combinator is a business. They use a template that is proven to make a lot of cash. It is also why these only programmer founders are always looking for market fit. If they had real world experience in the industry they would know where their product would fit in. It must be a good balance.
Paul Chadwick I’m a non tech founder and thought I needed a tech co founder. He was disruptive to the team and wrong 😑 on so much stuff. I took over the app development and got it done in 3 months instead of the 16 he was talking about.
Totally agreed, maybe this would have worked in 2011 but nowadays accelerators are very helpful they help build a product and even launch them. I understand that having a tech co-founder can be helpful but most often as it even happened in my case co-founder didn't care about the product and wasn't even motivated. Tech co-founders don't really take the business into account they think that the only tech is the core part, no sir, business is the main part. And if I were looking for a mentor, the lady from the above video surely won't be the person I'd like to gel with. It is often great chemistry between the founder and mentor/investor that helps them take their startup further. And expecting founders to have built something before, I mean what kind of logic is that. I have seen founders in their teenage years founding a company and doing well. It should be an open friendly world. I think a founder needs to be persistent, tenacious, and eager to learn. With that, they can take over the world.
@@jainakhil I have proved that you don’t need a tech cofounder. We built our app without one and I learned a lot in the process. The guy who I was eyeing for tech cofounder recommended we build the app using golang terrible advise cause you can’t find many engineers that know golang after he left after a month of stupid ideas none of which we used I made my operations manager CTO and we build the app in react native and Node JS and it’s up and running and the first customer just purchased a property using it this month. Had I listened to Ycombinator or any of those jokers I would not and done it on my own and had keep around a terrible engineer and human being that would have screwed up my app. Most of the design of the app I did my self and it was a skill I didn’t even know I had till I relied on my business experience to figure out!
@@brigadiergeneral2399 That's so exciting to hear. Don't know why these Jokers have a fixed template of doing things why do they call themselves as accelerators/enablers, history has proven time and time again that when people go above and beyond they achieve great things and any founder who believes in their product does that, you are one of the living examples. Would love to connect with you on any other platform LinkedIn or Facebook.
Strong friendship between founders.
Have built something before.
Determined mind.
》Strong friendship between founders.
No
That's their relationship fitting the mission
I can work with my enemy, as long as we both are 100% focused on achieving the same goal
Working with your enemy is also so much more interesting than working with your friends
@@yaxiongzhao6640False
Watching this 12 years later...
14
Incredibly helpful insights for startups and what founders need to do & keep in mind to stay on track. Love this video - Thanks so much for sharing!
god damn it i have no cofounder.
Don't fuss over it. I had two cofounders in my previous startup and life was such a pain with wrong cofounders. Needless to say, that startup failed. I have no cofounders now and I feel liberated and more productive, getting things done at faster pace.
We don't just take young 21 year olds, we have 30 year old too. Lol.
what about 42 year olds....
Standard for communists to prefer deceivable young.
What about 16 year olds?
We’re ready
Is it okay if your in high school? Like SUPER young?
Yes!
Husband and wife??
Ben Coleman Have you "created" anything yet?
Lol, I am sure that is the ultimate partnership.
YC itself is the creation of a husband & wife team, so I say go for it!
I think starting a business with your marital partner is crazy, but maybe I just haven't thought it through thoroughly enough
dean varillas
1:14, you can tell she wanted to say "That's one of the signs of a great hacker" but thought, "This is PR, I should say 'successful founder' instead."
Hmmmm...a yamaka
I know that's an old comment but it's one of the funniest things I've seen on youtube.
@@xLightcrystalx Ukraine isn't laughing about the government corruption there and the consequences of it...
What Y Combinator looks for in a founder
Backing just a programmer is dumb. Have you ever met programmers? They are not good business people, your building a business not just a program it’s just the tool. The business model is what must work.
Y combinator is a business. They use a template that is proven to make a lot of cash.
It is also why these only programmer founders are always looking for market fit. If they had real world experience in the industry they would know where their product would fit in.
It must be a good balance.
Paul Chadwick I’m a non tech founder and thought I needed a tech co founder. He was disruptive to the team and wrong 😑 on so much stuff. I took over the app development and got it done in 3 months instead of the 16 he was talking about.
Totally agreed, maybe this would have worked in 2011 but nowadays accelerators are very helpful they help build a product and even launch them. I understand that having a tech co-founder can be helpful but most often as it even happened in my case co-founder didn't care about the product and wasn't even motivated. Tech co-founders don't really take the business into account they think that the only tech is the core part, no sir, business is the main part.
And if I were looking for a mentor, the lady from the above video surely won't be the person I'd like to gel with. It is often great chemistry between the founder and mentor/investor that helps them take their startup further.
And expecting founders to have built something before, I mean what kind of logic is that. I have seen founders in their teenage years founding a company and doing well. It should be an open friendly world.
I think a founder needs to be persistent, tenacious, and eager to learn. With that, they can take over the world.
@@jainakhil I have proved that you don’t need a tech cofounder. We built our app without one and I learned a lot in the process. The guy who I was eyeing for tech cofounder recommended we build the app using golang terrible advise cause you can’t find many engineers that know golang after he left after a month of stupid ideas none of which we used I made my operations manager CTO and we build the app in react native and Node JS and it’s up and running and the first customer just purchased a property using it this month. Had I listened to Ycombinator or any of those jokers I would not and done it on my own and had keep around a terrible engineer and human being that would have screwed up my app. Most of the design of the app I did my self and it was a skill I didn’t even know I had till I relied on my business experience to figure out!
@@brigadiergeneral2399 That's so exciting to hear. Don't know why these Jokers have a fixed template of doing things why do they call themselves as accelerators/enablers, history has proven time and time again that when people go above and beyond they achieve great things and any founder who believes in their product does that, you are one of the living examples.
Would love to connect with you on any other platform LinkedIn or Facebook.