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why y combinator made all the difference

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While Y Combinator is not for everyone, it made all the difference for me and my company. This is a reflection on my experience partnering with Y Combinator and how it changed our destiny. We applied to Y Combinator for the summer class of 2012. We didn’t get in. They didn’t invite us to interview. Few people know that Experiment was initially created by a sole founder, Denny. Denny quickly recruited me. And together we recruited a founding team of six. This was our first mistake. In our first Y Combinator application we applied with six founders. We recruited four strangers, some of which are now our good friends some of which are not. Starting a company with six founders is generally a bad idea. Starting a company with people you just met is generally an even worse idea. We would learn this lesson the hard way. This first mistake we made was thinking we could make everyone in the founding team a founder. What I realize now is it is extremely important to be clear about expectations a

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