YC Founder Firesides: Gusto on building for new verticals
by Y Combinator8/15/2022
Today, more than 200,000 businesses use Gusto for payroll, employee benefits, talent management, and more. And with the recent addition of Gusto Embedded, developers now use Gusto’s APIs and pre-build UI flows to embed payroll, tax filing, and payments infrastructure into products.
YC Founder Firesides: Brex on spend and speed as a strategy
by Y Combinator4/21/2022
YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Brex Co-CEO Henrique Dubugras to talk about the launch of Empower and Henrique’s advice for startup founders and CEOs.
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder
by Y Combinator12/18/2019
Amber Atherton is the founder and CEO of Zyper (YC W18).Iba Masood is the cofounder and CEO of TARA (YC W15).
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown
by Y Combinator12/11/2019
Laks Srini is the cofounder and CTO of ZeroDown. Before that he was the cofounder and CTO of Zenefits.You can find him on Twitter at @laks_srini .--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Topics00:10 – What is ZeroDown?1:30 – How did they test the idea?3:30 [https://youtu.
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years
by Y Combinator12/4/2019
Matt Cutts is the Administrator of the USDigital Service and previously he was the head of thewebspam team at Google.You can find him on Twitter at @mattcutts .--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Topics00:00 – Intro00:18 – Working at Google in 20002:30 [https://youtu.
Vikrum Nijjar: Engineer #1 at Firebase and Founder of Gold Fig Labs (YC S19)
by Ryan Choi11/22/2019
Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever ittook to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobileSDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for24×7 hour shifts… for over a year.
Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market
by Y Combinator8/28/2019
Diana Hu cofounded Escher Reality, which wentthrough the Summer 2017 batch of YC. They were acquired by Niantic and she is now the head of their AR platform.She’s on Twitter @sdianahu .--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Topics00:00 – Intro00:15 – Getting into AR2:30 [https://youtu.