Startup School

“I was only invited once cause I was pretty anti raising money.”

“Paul Graham had already identified Ryan and Flexport as a breakout from YC before he went into YC, and you know that because he got called on stage at startup school by Paul before he was officially accepted into YC.”

“Across all of startup school, there are actually over a thousand companies that are doing hard tech or biotech things”

“It was the main reason why a lot of people are only able to work on their startup sometimes part-time. Yes, they might be stuck without resources, but they didn't have conviction.”

“So, last year we had over 15,000 people register and participate in startup school, and we had about 5000 graduate. From that graduating class we had about 391 of them. End up getting interviewed for the last batch, and then we accepted over 60 companies. It r…”

“So Startup School now represents the single largest source of companies that have, are accepted into a YC batch, which is super exciting.”

“83% of people who started doing Startup School, they were pre-launch, so no traction whatsoever. 52% were working full-time, so the other 48% was only part-time. 63% were single founders, which was very surprising to us. It was not so many teams. And then 59% …”

“Like, I actually think the lectures are the least important part. Of startup school. Like, it's a one thing that, like, it brings a lot of tension, it helps build up the brand. But those lectures are a way for people to understand and like get help. You know, …”

“One thing that I was super proud about that I was very passionate about was bringing in the Raiders, So I met with them and I got them to come to like some of our startup schools to like learn how to invest in companies and then also got them to come to our de…”

“Well, Startup School began a couple of years ago with a course Sam taught online called How to Start a Startup. And last year we evolved it into a course we taught with Stanford called Startup School.”

“So, we, ah, it's a 10 week course, and you can either audit the course, or you can actually be part of the, you can apply to be part of the course. And to be part of the course, you get, ah, obviously access to the materials and lectures. You're put into a gro…”

“Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston will be taking part in the course and giving some of their wisdom, which is also broad need to founders everywhere in the world, but we're also going to have other YC partners. Sam Altman, who's the president of Y Combinator,…”

“And we're going to choose a hundred companies that get that grant based on, well, the, how they do during the course and the information we're going to get from the advisors and the progress that company makes. So we're going to judge how promising that compan…”

“So we had 38 companies who actually got into our core YC program after going through startup school, and so they don't, they, I think for the most part, most of them did a lot of their iteration and talking to users during startup school, and they learn a lot …”

“So we have cloud credits from Amazon Web Services and DigitalOcean and maybe some others and then every company that comes through will be able to incorporate and create a bank account with, through Stripe Atlas.”

“We don't pay these folks to do this. They volunteer their time.”

“And last year, 56% finished, and, you know, our goal is higher this year.”