Our YC Interview Experience
2. the interview was exhilarating to say the least. like other groups (i think), we got in about 25% of what we wanted to say and the 10 minutes felt like
3. we wanted to discuss our different pricing model options, our ability to license our technology and partner with different white label ticketing system solutions and talk about how we've got 4 more hackers who we just brought on board but that we didn't have come to the interview and we got to none of that. i think yc was concerned that we actually had 5 founders, which we dont. We just brought extra folks from the team so careful about doing that bc you likely wont get a chance to introduce them as non-founders. we didn't start out with a pitch and we didn't show our demo. PG launched right into the questions and we were off and running.
3. i think it's important to keep in mind that PG and co. have strong reasons for asking the questions they do. they usually get right to the heart of the matter and in our case, our entire conversation basically centered around 2 key points. i would say the conversation was fairly cordial for the most part and was way closer to a lively discussion that to an interrogation. i think personally i talked too much and listened too little (hard when you're excited about the discussion, but something to keep in mind).
4. how did we do? well, we definitely didn't hit a homerun but i don't feel that we totally crashed and burned either. from what i've heard from yc alums, almost no groups that think they killed the interview get accepted, so i guess we've got that going for us.
5. we hung around yc campus for a couple hours after our discussion with YC partners and it's awesome to network and meet all these exceptionally talented and intelligent people doing exciting things. Not only that, but Amir, one of the founders of another yc applicant company, i think called tinkerheavy, already introduced our team to a MIT buddy who works for the Houston Rockets business strategy group on ticket pricing, partnerships with vendors and providing business intelligence to the Rocket's their various biz units.
looking forward to a phone call this evening but even if we dont get it, the experience and the people you meet make it worthwhile.