Some of our customers are multi billion dollar companies.
We are profitable, growing and got accepted by their direct competitor.
I still believe YC influence is amazing and I have nothing but respect for all the people involved in the program but I like to remind fellows entrepreneurs that any accelerator is just a tool.
If you want to build something, no amount of rejection will stop you.
Happy 2022!!
It's a tough slog, and it takes the founders away from doing the actual work they love, but don't give up. If your idea is good, keep ploughing onwards. I've given up way too easily in the past. It was only once I saw other companies recreate the same idea many years later and then be valued at billions of dollars that I really realized the value of the original idea and the opportunities I'd missed by not dragging myself out of bed to another fundraising meeting.
And if it does, you wouldn’t have built it anyway
For those of us unfamiliar with the startup world, could you share the name of their direct competitor?