Stripe, Mixpanel, and Brex acquired early customers through the YC network
Michael Seibel · A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator's CEO Michael Seibel · May 8, 2019 · at 6:11
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Michael Seibel, CEO of Y Combinator, explains how YC companies leverage internal alumni network warm leads to gain early B2B traction.
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“One of the superpowers that not many people understand about YC is because we have so many companies who've done YC, In effect, you get warm leads to anyone who's ever done YC. So it's a lot easier for YC companies to sell to one another. That's not a surprise you have companies like Stripe or Mixpanel or Brex who are able to, you know, acquire tons of YC companies very early.”
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