Finbarr Taylor

Co-founder & CTO, Shogun · 1 appearance on the record.

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Finbarr Taylor is the co-founder and former longtime CEO of Shogun, an e-commerce platform that raised over $115 million. Prior to Shogun, he co-founded GiveIt100, engineered internal tooling for Y Combinator, and became an active angel investor.

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Taylor: GiveItOneHundred has around 4,300 people on its waiting list
“Yeah, it's like 4300 or so on a waiting list.”
Finbarr Taylor Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 11:35 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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Taylor: GiveItOneHundred gets 1,000 views and 20-30 daily returning users
“So the view counts, we're seeing about a thousand views a day, ah, and we have roughly between 20 and 30 of our kind of small group of users are coming back to the website every day.”
Finbarr Taylor Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 13:19 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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Taylor: GiveItOneHundred users average around 18 video uploads each
“So out of the users that we have, there's an average of, ah, around 18 videos uploaded per user.”
Finbarr Taylor Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 17:33 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

Appearances (1)

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Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator Oct 26, 2013 2m
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