The YC Founder Directory

Interesting trends that pop out at first glance:<p>1. Seems like YC is all aboard the B2B SaaS train. This is funny because early last decade B2B SaaS was known as mostly a lifestyle business category, while investors focused on consumer facing tech and big ticket enterprise products<p>2. It appears that the big tech employee track and the startup track are one and the same now. This flies in the face of the common wisdom that entrepreneurs and employees are very different from one another.

Universities and former employers really pop out as something important, in a way I&#x27;d never fully grasped before.

Nice tool.<p>I searched entries for my University and the data needs some cleansing:<p>- Universidade de São Paulo [11]<p>- Universidade de São Paulo (USP) [8]<p>- University of Sao Paulo [4]<p>- Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo [3]<p>All of these refer to the same University. The last one is one of the University&#x27;s engineering schools.

Cool, it&#x27;s a round-about way to search YC companies based on HQ location:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;founders?yc_locations=Berlin%2C%20Berlin%2C%20Germany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;founders?yc_locations=...</a>

&gt; <i>For prospective founders who are looking for inspiring leaders, here is a way to discover founders who have had experiences that reflect your own and learn more about their founder journey.</i><p>I&#x27;d guess a directory of 10,000 YC alumni could be awesome, if you&#x27;re a new YC founder doing B2B sales cold calls.<p>(YC might connect their <i>current&#x2F;recent</i> startups to each other. But this could help you put shoe to the pavement, and knock on many more YC alumni doors, where you have the name of a likely well-placed person, and a small &quot;in&quot; with them. Unless that&#x27;s frowned-upon.)

The Startup Directory points to the Founder Directory as well.

Working in startups as an employee is a lottery ticket. Is there any heuristics&#x2F;tips which could help winning this lottery ticket? Like joining previously successful exit cofounder&#x27;s company? Joining series B ones which are likey to get series C

Search is really quick and a look under the covers shows it’s using algolia + s3 for images

When do we get a YC OAuth provider?

There was a top comment about the demographics of this directory.<p>Roughly paraphrasing, the comment was something like &quot;male, male, male, male, male, male, male, male, female, male, male.&quot;<p>I think this comment was flagged and hidden.<p>Please be kind + compassionate in your replies, but I&#x27;m curious why the original comment was suppressed. What happened?

That&#x27;s a little scary. Any way to opt out of being included in that? I&#x27;m probably not the target market for YC, but if I were, this would run me off. I don&#x27;t want to be known, I just want people to enjoy the stuff I make and for that enjoyment to be quantified in USD.

UX is strange. I searched for a founder friend and he has multiple companies listed but clicking on his image or anywhere in the result row just opens the page for an old company.

-- best pre-seed you can do is Stanford? --

I am not in there, even though I did YC twice. My 2 classes are the 2 most valuable classes of all time. Coincidence?<p>But they banned me.<p>&quot;Make something people want...that the censors approve of.&quot;