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Immersing in the current AI startup ecosystem, learning go-to-market and agentic development tactics from peers
"What are the most AI-pill founders doing? What are the craziest things that they're coming up with for sales, go to market, agentic development? All of that is happening at like warp speeds at YC. Once you're in the batch, you feel a bit of that FOMO. I wan..."
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Startup accelerator — seed funding, validation, and continued investment support throughout Whatnot's growth
"We went through Y Combinator. We went up to San Francisco to go to Y Combinator. They bet on us many times throughout our journey. When the business started to take off, they were like tremendously helpful and helped put in more money into the business ahea..."
Reducing founder loneliness, building peer network, learning from experienced founders, avoiding repeated mistakes
"Starting a company is a really lonely experience. Just having a set of peers — even though we did it during the pandemic — just talking to Jared and five other groups of founders every week really helped you feel less lonely. And of course the network was j..."