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		wmil on May 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fierce Nerds He's done internal software to manage YC. YC itself was born out of an attempt to hack the hack the VC funding system. Shift things to be more friendly to technical types. So it was an attempt to improve a complex system as opposed to focussing on making deals. Systems focussed instead of people focussed.

Clewza313 on May 18, 2021 [–]

Is there really that much custom software needed to manage YC? As opposed to the Excel spreadsheets that most investment banks operate with?

dang on May 18, 2021 | [–]

There is; you'd be surprised.

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