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Comment #41925131
Halo, developed by Unbabel, combines a non invasive BCI with an LLM to enable ALS patients to regain the ability to talk with loved ones. The search for a CEO is on.
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Unbabel (YC W14) Is Hiring Alliances, Marketing and CS for our SF Office
Unbabel is growing the SF office and is hiring the following positions. Join us and help build the world's translation layer Customer Success https://jobs.lever.co/unbabel/23df4aea…
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Comment #10206909
Hi, this is Vasco, I am Unbabel's CEO. We have a margin, of course, that depends on several factors.
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Comment #9182167
Thanks, it certainly did help beyond YC. The YC network is fantastic and I have to say the in general the YC brand open many doors. Both with customers, investors and recruiting. I…
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Comment #9181940
In our batch there were at least three teams with founders that had kids. I think that what you mean that is that doing a startup in general is biased against people with kids/fami…
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Comment #9181913
Doing a startup when you have kids is (almost) always harder. YC actually makes it easier. Since you are more likely to get funding, you can actually pay yourself at least enough t…
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Comment #9181238
I disagree. I have 4 kids, I have been married for 15 and my co-founder had a 3 months old when we did YC. And we are from Portugal, so we were away from our families when we went …
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Comment #9168872
Having lived in Pittsburgh for 10 years, I can say that I miss a lot about that City. I miss the seasons, the people and the landscape, and in Pittsburgh, there are a lot of great …
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Comment #8281513
Vasco Pedro, CEO and Co-founder of Unbabel. I feel that while it is very important to have honest discussions regarding employee expectations, in this particular case Andreas is be…
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Comment #8260286
The claims are most certainly not true. Regarding the code and team we have an mazing team and our code is pretty good, especially since going through YCombinator we have grown at …
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Comment #8258692
For the record I am a co-founder and CEO of Unbabel. I feel that I should respond to these allegations. 1 - The contract we had with Andreas was full time employee contract. The fi…
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Comment #7506218
Yes, there are companies in the batch that decide to remain in stealth a bit longer. Until they are ready to shine.