YC’s Group Partners share their worst investor meetings

This Week at YC

August 21, 2023

🔥 YC’s Group Partners share their worst investor meetings


Before they were Group Partners at YC, they were founders.

For this latest episode of Office Hours, the Group Partners are sharing stories from their worst investor meetings. They’ll outline some of the weird plays they’ve seen investors try to pull — but they’ll also confess times that they, as founders, bungled meetings they could’ve nailed. 

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It’s an easy way to keep up with YC's growing lineup of new video series — from the founder-favorite Dalton & Michael to the recently launched Founder FAQ — while also helping you explore a wealth of content we’ve made over the years.

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🌎 YC Community

Highlights and news from around YC
How Seabound (W22) is using carbon-capture tech to tackle the shipping industry's problematic emissions
Insider
"Pitch-deck advice: I don't think I have ever seen a fundraising deck getting better by using a designer to design it..."
YC Group Partner Gustaf Alströmer on X (Twitter)
How to grow a mission-driven organization? The CEO of GiveCampus (S15) explains
Inc.

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches 
Vango AI â€” Vango makes it 10x easier to build and evaluate Stable Diffusion workflows in your app.

Cardinal Gray â€” Auto lenders spend 30M hours a year sending title documents to 50 different state DMVs. Cardinal Gray automates this.


FleetWorks â€” We automate the 1B+ phone calls and emails that keep freight moving.

Twine â€” Turning missed calls into bookings.

Slicker â€” Use a single interface for all your global payment needs.

Elythea â€” 80%+ of pregnancy deaths are preventable. We use ML to catch and prevent life-threatening complications starting from the first visit.
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor | (https://www.nature.com/)
     
  2. Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator | (https://htmx.org/)
     
  3. We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x | (https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/)
     
  4. Ask vs. Guess Culture | (https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture)
     
  5. Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider | (https://www.phoronix.com/)
     
  6. Kris Nóva has died | (https://nivenly.org/)
     
  7. We’re all just temporarily abled | (https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/)
     
  8. Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better | (https://addyosmani.com/)
     
  9. Short session expiration does not help security | (https://www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl/)
     
  10. How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible? | (https://finbarr.ca/)
Read more on Hacker News

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Highlight (YC W23)
$8M Seed
San Francisco, CA
VentureBeat: Highlight launches full-stack application monitoring platform, raises $8M
DynamoFL (YC W22)
$15.1M Series A
San Francisco, CA
TechCrunch: DynamoFL raises $15.1M to help enterprises adopt ‘compliant’ LLMs
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