Y Combinator quiz

More questions about Y Combinator

These visible examples show the question style. LearnClash turns the full topic into ranked duels and spaced repetition.

1. 1 Easy

   Which computer scientist and essayist co-founded Y Combinator in 2005?

   Answer: Paul Graham

   Why: Before backing startups he sold Viaweb to Yahoo in 1998, and he had studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

2. 2 Medium

   What advice does the famous YC essay title give about scaling?

   Answer: Do things that don't scale

   Why: The 2013 essay urges founders to recruit their first users one by one, by hand, rather than waiting for growth to happen on its own.

3. 3 Hard

   How much MFN funding does the current YC standard deal offer?

   Answer: $375,000

   Why: The $375,000 is an uncapped MFN SAFE: at the priced round it gets the best terms, like the lowest cap, of any SAFE since about the batch start.

4. 4 Easy

   Which community news site is run and moderated by Y Combinator?

   Answer: Hacker News

   Why: It launched in February 2007 as Startup News, a real-world test of Paul Graham's Lisp dialect Arc, and became Hacker News that August.

5. 5 Medium

   Which YC alumnus founded the cloud storage giant Dropbox?

   Answer: Drew Houston

   Why: He started writing the code on a bus from Boston to New York, frustrated with himself for forgetting his thumb drive yet again.

6. 6 Hard

   What internal social network do Y Combinator founders use to communicate?

   Answer: Bookface

   Why: YC describes it as a mix of Facebook, Quora and LinkedIn, where each founder can tag themselves as an expert on any topic.