Same with us at last year at missiveapp.com, the interview was relaxed, still could not articulate what we were doing based on the questions. They even talked about some of our metrics at the end, those were wrong, like from the previous time we applied.

We were rejected, the reason: No market.

To YC's defense... they interview so many incredible founders.

We grew between 10% and 30% every months since. So in the end all good.

Our team was also rejected in 2013 with conferencebadge.com... that time we bombed the interview and were really bad. The business has now grown to 7 figures a year.

Both businesses are still managed by our small team of 3 co-founders and one employee and are quite successful. We own 100%.

What if we would have made the cut... who knows...