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Non-legal founders built Vessence MVP by embedding inside a law firm
“I worked with a company in the previous batch, the Spring batch, which was just now wrapping up, called Vessence, that are building software for lawyers. And neither of the founders has a legal background, and so the way that they got started before YC was the…”
The founders of Brex entered Y Combinator working on a VR startup
“There were the Brex founders, who I think were working on, like, a VR startup at the time.”
Koomen: Stripe Charged More Than Competitors in Its Early Days
“The Collison brothers famously charged more for Stripe in the beginning than their competition did. The fact that they were able to sell their product anyway was compelling evidence that they were onto something.”
Koomen: Optimizely started as manual A/B testing consulting before building software
“We actually had this example at Optimizely where we were building software to help companies run A-B tests. But at the earliest stages, we got companies to pay us just to go in and manually build A-B tests. For them. Right. And so we're making money. The first…”