What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator

Yes, please coordinate with kirsten@gitlab.com for a 25 minute Google Hangout with me, please link to this comment in your email to her. If the advice is generic enough we might work with you to publish it https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/ceo-pref... (you have a final say in what gets published). This process was also used to produce the OP.

Re: What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator

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Post by jontonsoup » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 11:34 PM UTC

sytse wrote: post #4

jontonsoup wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will you read over my application? Would love feedback!

Yes, please coordinate with kirsten@gitlab.com for a 25 minute Google Hangout with me, please link to this comment in your email to her. If the advice is generic enough we might work with you to publish it https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/ceo-pref... (you have a final say in what gets published). This process was also used to produce the OP.

Oh wow that's awesome. Thanks! Will send an email.

Re: What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator

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Post by the_watcher » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 11:36 PM UTC

sytse wrote: post #2

GitLab CEO here, AMA

Just an FYI - looks like the link to Placket points to https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/30/what-founders-ask-founde..., so it just 404s.

Re: What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator

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Post by annerajb » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 11:37 PM UTC

What did you learn at YC that you feel you would have not learned elsewhere or that it would have taken you longer?

Re: What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator

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Post by sytse » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 11:40 PM UTC

the_watcher wrote: post #6

sytse wrote: post #2

GitLab CEO here, AMA

Just an FYI - looks like the link to Placket points to https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/30/what-founders-ask-founde... , so it just 404s.

Thanks for watching out for us. Fixed with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/e213dac8... (deploy is in progress)

Re: What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator

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Post by sytse » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 11:40 PM UTC

jontonsoup wrote: post #5

sytse wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, please coordinate with kirsten@gitlab.com for a 25 minute Google Hangout with me, please link to this comment in your email to her. If the advice is generic enough we might work with you to publish it https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/ceo-pref... (you have a final say in what gets published). This process was also used to produce the OP.

Oh wow that's awesome. Thanks! Will send an email.

Great, looking forward to it.

Re: What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator

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Post by the_watcher » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

sytse wrote: post #8

the_watcher wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just an FYI - looks like the link to Placket points to https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/30/what-founders-ask-founde... , so it just 404s.

Thanks for watching out for us. Fixed with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/e213dac8... (deploy is in progress)

No problem - I've made that mistake myself on more than one occasion.