3 YC Interviews, Biggest Mistakes; Accepted 3rd Time

This founder had three interviews with YC. Here are the two biggest questions that stumped them and the thing they did that got them in the third time. >> Head of legal at YC and he was the one interviewing. So what vertical are you going in? Like what customers do you have? Who have you talked to? We had done none of it. And within 3 minutes he was like yeah these guys are just idiots. Second interview Michael Cybel Pete Kumman Cyel is he's going to ask you and interrupt you and like get like the root cause. The big concern there was like most likely QuickBooks Online or similar is going to do this themselves. And then the third one was in person. It was awesome. We were in San Francisco. The big thing was we had launched and we had customers and we had iterated on customers feedback, tangible ROIs, why we were the right fit for these customers. When I asked like what got us in, she was like, "I think your demo looked cool." >> That's Joseph, the founder of Ledger Up and he did not go to a top 10 university and yet he persisted and got into Y Combinator. Check out his full story. It's one of my favorites.