📈 Growth Hacking To A Billion Dollar Marketplace
Today Whatnot (YC W20) is where collectors can buy, sell, go live, and geek out with others across a wide variety of products. But, like every startup, it began as just an idea. YC's Anu Hariharan sat down with Whatnot co-founder and CEO Grant LaFontaine to discuss their first 5 launches, and the takeaways they had that helped to shape the company into what it is today.
 

👩🏽‍💻 Women Engineers in Startups: Tess's Story
Last year we launched the first Women Engineers in Startups series, with a goal to encourage more women to consider working at high-growth startups. Tess Huelskamp, a participant in the first cohort, went on to accept a role at Middesk (YC W19). She shared with us her experience and advice for women thinking about joining a startup.
 

🎉 YC S10's Presto Goes Public
Founded at M.I.T. in 2008 by Rajat Suri, today Presto is the leading provider of enterprise-grade touch, vision and voice restaurant technologies. With 100 million active monthly users and 300,000 systems shipped across three continents, Presto helps restaurants achieve over 250% labor productivity and 30% larger check sizes by utilizing their full technology suite.

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