Lillian Chou

Co-Founder, Turnstile · 1 appearance on the record.

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Lillian Chou co-founded Second Measure, an alternative transaction-data analytics company that raised more than $25 million and was acquired by Bloomberg in December 2020. She subsequently co-founded Turnstile, a quote-to-cash and revenue lifecycle management software platform backed by First Round Capital.

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Chou: Speed is paramount because customers won't pay for test coverage
“So speed is paramount. Nobody's gonna pay you for having excellent test coverage.”
Lillian Chou Oct 10, 2018 ▶ 23:29 Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
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Chou: Outsourcing core IP turns a startup into a marketing company
“What's your IP? You don't want to outsource that at some point. If you do, you're pretty much just a marketing company.”
Lillian Chou Oct 10, 2018 ▶ 49:04 Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
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Chou: Early startups should use familiar tech until product-market fit
“It's more important in the early days to be able to Iterate quickly, and usually that comes from using the technology that you know the best and building things in a modular way such that once you actually find that product market fit and know what your audien…”
Lillian Chou Oct 10, 2018 ▶ 22:14 Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
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Chou: Gaining traction shifts technical founders from coding to org-building
“There's a pretty big shift that happens once you start gaining traction, where it's less about building a product for a market and finding that fit, and it shifts more into turn, like, building an organization, a company and a system, like this system of human…”
Lillian Chou Oct 10, 2018 ▶ 46:36 Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator

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Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator Oct 10, 2018 12m
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