Join the YC Software Team

A brief recruiting note suggesting the YC software team as a useful path for would-be founders who hope to work with YC before they have a startup ready.

Published 2017-05-19 1 min read 37 words 3 topics

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If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team is a great hack to get there. The YC software team is a small group of hack

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