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Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by zilongli »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #51
snowmaker wrote: post #36

Guys - we are deeply sorry for this screw-up. I know we got people's hopes up only to let you down, and I feel terrible about it. While it doesn't excuse our mistake, for what it's worth, Startup School makes the classes and all the materials available online to everyone. So even if you didn't get accepted to the advisor track, we hope you will follow along, watch the videos, and find the material useful. My apologie…

Mistakes happen. Waiting two hours to tell people, then doing so from a do-not-reply address, however, is a poor way to handle them. If we make a mistake like this as a company, we at least try to make up for it in some way, and make our users feel valued.

The 'apologies' email was another bulk no-reply message. Maybe they misapologised, too.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by tolth »

snowmaker wrote: post #64
tolth wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about making this up to those of us who got false-acceptance emails by providing some feedback on our applications?

I'm happy to do that. Email us at startupschool@ycombinator.com with your name so we can do that.

My cofounder who led the application will be doing so in a moment! Thanks.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by snowmaker »

nautical wrote: post #50
jaysonelliot wrote: post #45

Mistakes happen, but it should not have taken them over two hours to contact people who'd been celebrating their acceptance. We got the "you're in!" email, and the whole team was pumped. Having to go back to them hours later to let them down was really hard to do. The fact that Ycombinator sent the "oops, sorry!" email from a do-not-reply address and basically did nothing to make up for it showed a real lack of respe…

And worst part is had shared with family and friends .. such a let down ..

I really feel terrible about that part in particular.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by [deleted] »

w_allDueRespect wrote: post #30
greysteil wrote: post #20

So much love for everyone who received an "accepted" email in error. Don't let it get you down. I just got rejected with https://dependabot.com despite $6k MRR and 2,000 active users. I'm sure there are lots of other great companies in the same situation - let's keep building great things.

Thank you for that. The worst part though is the part where they say "You got accepted to audit the course" .... doesn't everyone get accepted to audit it?

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Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by itsevrgrn »

w_allDueRespect wrote: post #22

Yeah, this was totally not cool. I much like most of you was not expecting to get accepted, I basically applied for the hell of it. None the less, it was quite a let down to receive that second email. Especially after telling a few family and friends. Kind of sucks, but hey it was an accident all we can do is move past it.

I'm in the same boat. I wonder what some of the people who apply for the hell of it could do if they were joined together to make a company. There are a ton of really talented people on here.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by jeanlucas »

snowmaker wrote: post #44
w_allDueRespect wrote: post #22

Yeah, this was totally not cool. I much like most of you was not expecting to get accepted, I basically applied for the hell of it. None the less, it was quite a let down to receive that second email. Especially after telling a few family and friends. Kind of sucks, but hey it was an accident all we can do is move past it.

You're right - it was extremely not cool. We're very sorry.

Hey, please, in the good name of YC, explain this on twitter. Some people are kinda lost over there. I got an invite as participant and got a reply saying I am not an advisor (but nothing about participating)

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by torartc »

snowmaker wrote: post #74
nautical wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And worst part is had shared with family and friends .. such a let down ..

I really feel terrible about that part in particular.

My team and family were already celebrating. It was humiliating to have to email my wife and tell her about the denial email.
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