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Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator May 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:47 Garry Tan He created Optimizely, which was one of the first and one of the best ways to do A-B testing for apps and websites.

Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting & How To Hire · Y Combinator Oct 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:38 Pete Koomen At Optimizely, the hardest part of building our first product was building this website editor.

How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator May 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:36 David Lieb Pete was the founder of Optimizely, which built software to help companies AB test.

Enterprise Sales | Startup School · Y Combinator Jul 8, 2024 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:14 Pete Koomen I was co-founder and CTO of Optimizely in the winter, twenty-ten batch. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:01 Pete Koomen For example, at Optimizely, our initial hypothesis was something like this. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:19 Pete Koomen I'll give you an example from the early days of Optimizely.
  • ▶ 16:05 Pete Koomen In the early days of Optimizely, we had published self-serve pricing for customers who just wanted to swipe a credit card for a basic version of our product, and an enterprise plan that required you to go through sales.
  • ▶ 20:21 Pete Koomen We made this mistake more than once at Optimizely. 3 times in the scene

Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator May 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:38 Pete Koomen And so, uh, we actually had this example at Optimizely where we were building software to help companies run A-B tests.

Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator Apr 21, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:33 Diana Hu I won't cover it too much because a lot of you in startup school are mostly in this earlier stage, and I'm excited to give this talk because I compiled it from many conversations and chats with many YC technical founders, like from…
  • ▶ 6:16 Diana Hu This company optimizely went through YC on winter 10, and they put this prototype literally in a couple of days, and the reason why is that they had applied with YC with a very different idea. 2 times in the scene

Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator Oct 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:58 Mathilde Collin Uh, I mean, so the thing is, so every single moment is super hard, and so one of my biggest learnings from YC four years ago when, you know, the company was super small, and every Tuesday we had people coming and talking about all kinds of…

Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator Mar 8, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:26 Elad Gil We would have used Zenefits for health, ah, insurance, Optimizely for AB testing, PagerDuty for PagerDuty, and so,

Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator Dec 13, 2017 · 1 mention

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 31:48 Tikhon Bernstam So I've been, um, I'm so far invested in like Cruz, which just sold a GM, uh, uh, Gusto lend up, um, checker optimizely, uh, Reddit, um, things like that. 3 times in the scene
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