🚀 Change the way you think about launching

As the head of our Outreach team, Kat advises early stage founders on their launches during the batch and has seen thousands of companies go through the program to date. In her talk, she shares the multitude of ways to launch and get attention for your product, with tangible strategies and examples from companies like Airbnb.

🔥 Founder Fireside: Ginkgo's Reshma Shetty and Jason Kelly

Luminaries in the field of synthetic biology, Reshma Shetty and Jason Kelly are the co-founders of Ginkgo Bioworks — YC’s first synthetic biology startup to IPO. Join us on March 3rd as YC Group Partner Surbhi Sarna hosts them for a live conversation around their founder journey and their vision for the future.

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We're beta launching Career Coaching for job seekers actively looking to startups for their next adventure. Create a profile & apply to join the program here.

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