The Software Behind YC’s Investor Day

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81 points·craigcannon··9 comments

Investor day was epic - tons of props to software and ops teams!

I wrote my own version of this if anyone is interested in seeing how I implemented this: https://github.com/allynalford/investor_day

The relevant part is here: https://github.com/allynalford/investor_day/blob/master/app/...

"We wanted to automatically generate the schedule based on mutual interest."

Dating application.

"We trade an order of magnitude reduction in the number of gaps for a roughly 5% decrease in the average meeting score."

I wonder if the investors would make this tradeoff if given the choice. Was this an instinctive call or is there data behind it?

It was instinctive. We figured that if investors had schedules that required them to wait around half a day between meetings, they would be 1) irritated and 2) less likely to show up. I think we made the right call.

>S16 companies had an average of 13.88 meetings with a median of 15 meetings. 15 was the maximum[...]

How is that possible.

More than half the companies have 15 meetings, others have lower numbers?

E.g. if there are 100 companies, 75 having 15 meetings, 3 having 14 and 22 having 10 would give an average of 13.87 and a median of 15.

FYI, I'm getting this issue on FireFox

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mee too

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