Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

Post by jaysonelliot » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

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…

Post by torartc » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:48 PM UTC

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…

Post by snowmaker » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:49 PM UTC

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…

Post by yesimeanno » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:49 PM UTC

mwseibel wrote: post #40

I just want to say we are really sorry for this error. This is not the standard we hold ourselves to at YC. I personally apologize to the companies that were both rejected and accepted. Trust that this provides us with even more motivation to make sure that Startup School is great for all participants.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:50 PM UTC