Inside Silicon Valley’s $600B Startup School: Y Combinator | Affil AI (YC S24)
What’s it really like inside Y Combinator - the world’s most iconic startup school?
In this episode, we sit down with John Ta and Vivek Olumbe of Affil, the YC-backed startup building AI compliance for affiliate credit card marketers. We chatted on the YC interview, how to ACTUALLY sell before you build, entrepreneur mindset that helps companies thrive and many more
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:24 - The YC Interview
05:54 - What Happens within YC that People don’t talk about
13:12 - Bringing the YC Mindset to Your Startup
20:35 - Building with Customers
24:06 - First Hire
27:27 - Are these Real Company Slogans?
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