foreign expecting a full online kind of experience and instead we got this you mean the first annual Sonoma badge kickoff I love just meeting everyone at the start of the batch surrounded by really smart people from all over the world before I was in YC I didn't feel like I had that many founder friends and so it's just been incredible to have so many other people who are at a very similar point in their lives so many
different Founders from like different areas that I did not think that YC companies were founded it was incredible we're building General autonomy software for Industrial Vehicles lion pose is making clinical skin care products for people of color numi Foods is The Impossible foods for seafood we're building robotic mushroom bombs we are making it extremely easy to get get great OB GYN care in person and over
Telehealth we've developed the world's first biodegradable and carbon neutral polyester alternative engineered from food waste Earhart is building airplanes that anyone can fly now imagine is a scalable Cloud native alternative to get garage is the wholesale auto parts distributor in Africa we're making the next Google seeing like so many things has come by pushing new mobile I think only YC can provide you with this
it was just like the perfect way to start relationships in a Range I came back from that Retreat and I said like this is basically most of the value that I wanted out of YC already my favorite parts of that were hearing the partners founding stories and their backgrounds and actually you know being pretty inspired by them and then the rest of the bats you can really like be like wow
this advice is coming from a real source of Truth and experience actually work together with the partners much more than I ever thought and they've built incredible companies themselves they have proven that they know how to scale a business and they take time just for you I think it's obviously great that we have the guidance from our partners but I think even just coming here to spark
social and talking to other people in our batch on a weekly basis as we've been going through it and getting feedback and support and people checking in has been I think invaluable it had never even crossed my mind that that would be a benefit of white seed I made like so many great friends and they helped me like connect like customers we help each other you know getting through that was like watching that meeting
people in person at least at the retreat at these in-person events it was really really helpful for us you come in and you realize like there's so much to learn it's really intense and your company is in much better shape after these three months it's exceeded our expectations by far already it's literally life-changing and transformational because you know we thought you know one thing going into
the batch and now we think something completely differently and are really excited about our future and The Business of the future as well I definitely say like if you're thinking about doing it just do it and it might change your life it changed our lives so like you should do it the question should more be why not applying to us why we didn't do it sooner why didn't we do it sooner foreign [Music]