Ali Rowghani, head of YC Continuity, talks to Gitlab CEO Sid Sijbrandij (W15) about how Gitlab has built a completely distributed company with 160 people (and growing). Sid’s biggest tip for success in scaling a distributed company: write everything down.
Feb 9, 2017I could tell he didn’t get it. Despite his polite smiles and nods, despite my frequently-rehearsed and carefully-refined explanations of what my company did and why it was…
Dec 16, 2015The co-founders of Lugg on hustling for their first users, learning by doing, and the adrenaline rush of solving people’s pain points. Y Combinator: Lugg has attracted a…
Dec 9, 2015The following is an adaption of a presentation I give to YC startups before we have them create their presentation slide decks for Demo Day. Here’s how to…
Nov 15, 2015We thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give…
Nov 6, 2015Let’s imagine that you are the founder of a company that has successfully raised an angel or institutional round and are currently in a situation where you have…
Jan 22, 2015