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First Five Hires with Posthog

PostHog (YC W20) is a suite of open source product analytic tools that companies can host themselves. YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with the co-founder and CEO of PostHog James Hawkins to discuss hiring their first five employees.

Video Startups Founder Stories Company Building

Y Combinator

8/16/2022

YC Founder Firesides: Gusto on building for new verticals

Today, more than 200,000 businesses use Gusto for payroll, employee benefits, talent management, and more. And with the recent addition of Gusto Embedded, developers now use Gusto’s APIs and pre-build UI flows to embed payroll, tax filing, and payments infrastructure into products.

YC Events Startups Interview YC Continuity Founder Stories Podcast

Y Combinator

8/15/2022

New YC video series: First Five

Introducing First Five, a new video series where growth stage companies look back on their first five hires, customers, and launches. In the first episode, YC Managing Director Anu Hariharan sits down with Tomer London, the co-founder and CPO of Gusto, to look back on the company’s first five hires.

YC News Video Founder Stories Work at a Startup

Y Combinator

7/13/2022

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Same, Same but Different with Vanta and Zapier

by Y Combinator7/7/2022

Both Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo and Zapier CEO WadeFoster made the decision to take a disciplinedapproach to fundraising.

Launch YC: The Launchpad for YC Startups

by Y Combinator6/29/2022

Today we launched a new way to discover recently-backed YC startups and product updates from YC alum — Launch YC.

New YC audio series: Same, Same but Different

by Y Combinator6/27/2022

We’re launching a new audio series on Twitter Spaces called Same, Same but Different. Each episode brings together two YC founders who will discuss a similar decision they made on their journey to building a growth-stage company.

YC Founder Firesides: Brex on spend and speed as a strategy

by Y Combinator4/21/2022

YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Brex Co-CEO Henrique Dubugras to talk about the launch of Empower and Henrique’s advice for startup founders and CEOs.

Y Combinator Top Companies - February 2022

by Y Combinator2/28/2022

We’re excited to share the 2022 YC Top Companies. In addition to the list of top companies, we’ve also launched the YC Breakthrough List to highlight the fast-growing companies that have received between $15M-$300M from YC.

Discover Black-founded companies

by Y Combinator2/1/2022

Today, we updated the YC directory dedicated to highlighting Black-founded companies. Whether you’re an investor, job seeker, or potential customer, we hope you explore the directory and use it as a resource when seeking to support Black-founded startups.

Welcome Surbhi, Nicolas, Divya, Ashu, and Tom

by Y Combinator11/22/2021

We’re excited to welcome two new full-time Group Partners (Surbhi Sarna and Nicolas Dessaigne) and three W22 Visiting Group Partners (Divya Bhat, Ashu Desai and Tom Blomfield) to YC.