YC acts as a forcing function for founders to focus entirely
Aaron Harris · 20 VC 076: Y COMBINATOR WEEK: Aaron Harris, Partner @ YC · Sep 30, 2015 · at 8:55
Aaron Harris, Partner at Y Combinator, explains to 20VC host Harry Stebbings how the structure of YC's three-month program helps founders eliminate distractions.
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“And then the three months of YC itself is such a great time for founders to be able to push off everything else, right? It's this great excuse to focus. Anyone who wants to talk to you that isn't a customer who you need to talk to or a user you need to talk to, you can say, hey, you know, I'm doing this three month thing. I really need to focus right now and ship product. That's all I'm going to do. I have to write code and I have to talk to my users. That's it. Right. That's a really powerful forcing function, honestly.”
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