Tag: Cofounder

YC is hiring a product engineer to work on co-founder matching (SF/remote, US)

About two years ago, YC launched a site to help people find co-founders. We heard from a lot of people that the biggest thing holding them back from starting a company was that they didn’t want to do it alone and didn’t have any friends who wanted to do it with them.

So we built a site that’s similar to a dating site but for co-founders, and launched it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750298.

Like any new product, we weren’t sure how well this would work. Other people had tried this idea before, and none of them had really taken off. But we thought YC had some unique advantages in doing it.

Fast forward to now, and frankly it’s worked better than we dared hope. In the first two years, YC has invested in dozens of companies that came from people meeting each other on the site. We wrote about three of the early successes here: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/does-co-founder-matching-wo…. We believe that in the long term, this could be how hundreds or even thousands of successful startups get started.

Right now, only two engineers are working on this which is a bit crazy, so we’d like to hire someone else to help us move faster. We use Rails and React, but you don’t have to have worked with Rails before as long as you have full stack web experience.

The majority of the team is in the SF Bay Area where the YC program runs. You don’t have to be in SF but unfortunately we can only hire people in the US at the moment.

YC offers highly competitive compensation and benefits, including equity in YC’s portfolio.

The most unique benefit though, is that as part of the YC software team, you basically get full access to the YC program, founders, and partners – from our bi-annual batch retreats in Sonoma to our weekly meetups in SF. You’ll learn the ins and outs of how YC works, and you’ll get to know hundreds of startup founders. If you think you might want to start a startup someday, working at YC would be an excellent jumping-off point.

If you’d like to work with us, there’s a formal job description here where you can apply (https://www.ycombinator.com/careers?ashby_jid=3d64f000-8d84-…) or just email me at jared@ycombinator.com. We’d love to hear from you!

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Hi, I’m Neil Patel, Co-founder of NPDigital. Ask Me Anything!

Today, I thought I would do something a bit different, as 66.9% of my website traffic is brand new.

For those of you who don’t know, my name is Neil Patel and I’m
the co-founder of a digital marketing agency called, NPDigital, where we help companies of all
sizes get more traffic and sales.

I’ve been an entrepreneur for roughly 18 years now and most
of the companies I co-founded have been in the software arena, specifically the
web analytics sector.

And now, I’m back at it with Ubersuggest, my latest software
company.

In addition to that, I’ve angel invested in dozens of companies. Some have done well, and others haven’t.

Overall, I’ve been blessed with a few successes that have
made up for my failures plus more.

So today is your day to ask me any questions you have, and I will do my best to answer it. You can ask me about entrepreneurship, marketing, or anything else. I’ve dealt with class-action lawsuits, an FTC investigation (which I passed), and I’ve lost out on acquisitions from Fortune 1000 companies because of stupidity on my part.

All I ask of you is. Please keep your question as short as possible. One to two sentences max as I will get hundreds of comments (potentially even 1,000 or more).

So, what can I answer for you?

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