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Get ready for the YC interviews: make sure you know the partners

47 pointsby way66over 12 years ago

13 comments

Archioover 12 years ago
TL;DR: Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Stanford, Oxford, Yale, Cambridge, MIT, Stanford, Harvard. It is difficult to tell if this is an indication that YC overwhelmingly prefers people from extremely prestigious name-brand universities, or only people from said universities have any chance of being "connected" enough to get into YC.
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e1venover 12 years ago
Very cute.<p>Two thoughts-<p>1- I might suggest that if you're encouraging people to study/memorize the names for YC interviews, you provide a downloadable/clippable version, that they can paste into standard flashcard tools.<p>2- You're loading Zepto externally through cloudflare, but calling it as an inline script. This is causing an issue where Zepto can't initialize, as the external JS hasn't loaded yet. There are a number of ways to fix this, but it renders the site unusable in chrome for me (Although it works in other browsers)
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spoluover 12 years ago
Robert Morris is a very very very serious guy in his field. I wish I could interview with him to chat a little bit about exokernels!
rdlover 12 years ago
There are also YC alumni walking around in the waiting area before the interviews, usually -- probably identifiable by YC clothing items (sweatshirts, t-shirts) or by generally looking less nervous than applicants...<p>And there are a couple more YC employees usually present, handling scheduling and logistics.
daniel_levineover 12 years ago
Some extra notes: Justin Kan is currently one of the founders of another YC company, Exec. RTM is the eponym of the "Morris worm" believed to be the first Internet worm (you note this a bit with the discovery of buffer overflow).
way66over 12 years ago
Good luck everyone for the interviews! We've made that for us to prepare but we thought other people will be interested too, so we've quickly made this website (works well on your phone as a full screen app!)
way66over 12 years ago
Is it fun to come before your interview and hang out with another applicants or everyone is so stressed (fixing the demo!) ?
psychoover 12 years ago
I know that you shouldn't mix Jessica Livingston with secretary - many people do, they say.
vicapowover 12 years ago
i put together my own little version:<p><a href="http://vicapow.clickb.in/investor/partner/person/yc" rel="nofollow">http://vicapow.clickb.in/investor/partner/person/yc</a>
julienover 12 years ago
Pretty smart page :) Whoever did that deserves their YC spot!
Timotheeover 12 years ago
Do all these partners give interviews?
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sneakover 12 years ago
pg needs a better press photo than the one where he looks surprised at being asked a stupid question.
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bfluzinover 12 years ago
Well that's a nice panel.