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Ask PG: YC Talent Pool?
Was wondering if you or the folks at YC have thought of this. I know Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners both have talent pools, where they connect interested developers and designers to startups they have funded.
As someone who is transitioning from being a student to wanting to work with a small team full-time, I would personally love to be a part of a talent pool that could connect me to promising startups funded by YC that are in need of my skills.
I also know a lot of the companies funded by YC are also looking to expand their teams and may have difficulty recruiting talent; so I think it’d be something beneficial for both sides. Have you all ever thought of trying something like this?
- pg 14y agoYC itself is effectively that. The good people from the startups that fail get picked up by the others. We also run http://workatastartup.org http://workatastartup.org.
- mitchellwfox 14y agoHave you checked out the "jobs" section here on HN? http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs It's obviously a one-way tool and what you're describing is two-way, but it's a start.
- 46Bit 14y agoThere is something of a talent pool in recommendations between the YC startups. Get involved with one, and you'll probably be able to get more work out of it if you do a good enough job for them to remember it.