TechCrunch published this video item, entitled “Speaker Q&A: How to Get in to Y Combinator” – below is their description.
Designed to be conversational, this 20 minute Q & A session is an opportunity to talk with Anu Hariharan, Managing Director, YC Continuity about what it takes to become one of Y Combinator startups.
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Y Combinator is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Stripe, Airbnb, Cruise, PagerDuty, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, Dropbox, Twitch, Flightfox, and Reddit.
