Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by cbcowans » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 5:08 PM UTC

Leap Spins out of YC
blog.ycombinator.com

Re: Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by cbcowans » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

Hi! Leap is spinning out of YC today as an independent company called Elpha. I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Elpha and am here to answer questions. Thanks!!

Re: Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by mariedm » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 6:18 PM UTC

cbcowans wrote: post #2

Hi! Leap is spinning out of YC today as an independent company called Elpha. I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Elpha and am here to answer questions. Thanks!!

Hi Cadran, congrats on Elpha and this new birth! I'm Marie and I also created a place to support women in this industry, Women Make. I was wondering, why did you change the name?

Re: Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by cbcowans » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 6:23 PM UTC

mariedm wrote: post #3

cbcowans wrote: post #2

Hi! Leap is spinning out of YC today as an independent company called Elpha. I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Elpha and am here to answer questions. Thanks!!

Hi Cadran, congrats on Elpha and this new birth! I'm Marie and I also created a place to support women in this industry, Women Make. I was wondering, why did you change the name?

Thank you, Marie!

We landed on Elpha by riffing on the word alpha and the notion that we want to create a place where women come first. We combined alpha with the French word for she (“Elle”) to create ellepha and then shortened it to elpha from there.

Re: Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by mariedm » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 6:24 PM UTC

cbcowans wrote: post #4

mariedm wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Cadran, congrats on Elpha and this new birth! I'm Marie and I also created a place to support women in this industry, Women Make. I was wondering, why did you change the name?

Thank you, Marie! We landed on Elpha by riffing on the word alpha and the notion that we want to create a place where women come first. We combined alpha with the French word for she (“Elle”) to create ellepha and then shortened it to elpha from there.

Funny, I'm actually French! Nice name anyway :)

Re: Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by Cenk » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

Congrats on your relaunch! The new landing page is fantastic. I love the "Remind me" function for upcoming AMAs.

Re: Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by btilly » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

cbcowans wrote: post #2

Hi! Leap is spinning out of YC today as an independent company called Elpha. I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Elpha and am here to answer questions. Thanks!!

FYI, the link in your profile to http://elpha.com/invitations/join-hn does not appear to be working.

Re: Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by briantmaurer » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 6:42 PM UTC

As not-a-female, what can we do to learn from this community?

Re: Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by cbcowans » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

Cenk wrote: post #6

Congrats on your relaunch! The new landing page is fantastic. I love the "Remind me" function for upcoming AMAs.

Thank you so much! Glad you like it :)

Re: Leap Spins out of YC

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Post by cbcowans » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

btilly wrote: post #7

cbcowans wrote: post #2

Hi! Leap is spinning out of YC today as an independent company called Elpha. I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Elpha and am here to answer questions. Thanks!!

FYI, the link in your profile to http://elpha.com/invitations/join-hn does not appear to be working.

thank you! It should be: http://elpha.com/invite/join-hn

Just fixed it.