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I'm curious, how exactly are the partner silos structured? Are the silos grouped by partner expertise, and startups rotate across silos based on what they want to talk about? Or does each individual silo have a set of partners whose combined expertise cover everything, and startups are assigned to a silo? From 26:30 in the video or so.

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Each one has 2 or 3 partners and 20-something startups. The startups do group office hours with those partners, and when they request individual office hours those are the partners they get by default. Startups can also request office hours with any partner if they need some special expertise that only they have. E.g. Geoff knows a lot about music startups, Sam is the expert on fundraising, I'm the one with a knack for thinking of new domain names.

I'm not one of the group partners. I try to meet with all the startups, but obviously not as frequently as the group partners.

Since you won't be in interviews, would you share any domain/naming ideas for our startup? I'll email you our pitch deck if you'd look at it for 30 seconds. :)

I'm sure he'd rather you just apply for the next batch of YC. Applications are open.

http://ycombinator.com/apply.html

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