why did you apply to YC good question the brand Community mentorship I think the perception is that YC is the batch and the fundraising but really there's so much more than [Music] that we applied to YC for the mentorship and support towards the mentorship top-notch advice advisers who have your back accountability and advice I mean we wanted to get roasted by cble and the other group Partners I think like
talking to friends who did the previous batches that direct honest feedback and being able to you know quickly iterate on your business very fast in that short 3-month period was very helpful for them and we wanted to go through that same level of pain so here we are um I was really excited to work with the partners you know it's kind of rare that a VC firm actually has partners that have gone through building a company the best
people to learn from are the people who've done it before and who've made all the mistakes we knew some people who had gone through the experience and really just spoke about the community and kind of the support and and resources that are are provided in this environment I saw YC as a great way to have a community of like-minded people being part of this network in this community a great Community the
community community um you know starting a company is hard it's a long arduous road that very few people Traverse on and actually have the ability to persist the amount of people that you find that can relate to your problems is very little now like my friends now don't really relate so just having that network of people that actually really understand what you're going through is super helpful we' obviously follow why
combinator and like had looked up to it for several years I've been reading Hacker News for a while I've been kind of reading Paul Graham essay since I was like 14 why did you apply to YC mostly because of the reputation the track record and reputation the name the recognition the power that comes with the YC Network I think as two female Founders launching in construction and fintech we needed all of the support and
kind of raw raw around us that we could get I think the brand do well right I think for us we want to are the best people in the world and we know the best people in the world want to work for YC companies so being one helps it gave us the right amount of money the right amount of time a fresh start 3mon time box Target with demo day at the end so it's it's just setting us up perfectly
in this environment where funding is becoming challenging sort of the validation that YC brings is very important especially for Founders in Emerging Markets where funding is not as readily available as it would be in San Francisco for example we're also not in the Bay Area so we thought there'd be a huge Advantage build up Network meeting some folks um out here and learning from some of the group partners that are here
so we are building Gusto for Middle East and North Africa there's very few SAS companies it's very nent out there and Tech is also very nent and YC has funded some of the best and brightest Minds out here and we want to learn from that community and the the network that came before us I've always known of YC as just a fantastic place to build something and kind of unparalleled in the world of [Music] startups [Music]