so thank you so much quick round of applause for making it out here for all these companies that we're going to be having a walk across here it's two o'clock we want to keep it on time because we have a lot of great stuff to get through so this is where we are in the schedule I'm going to give a couple of opening remarks and we're gonna have Jeff the new president of Y Combinator
come up here and kind of give his his talk on why I see and work at at startups and then we're just going to roll right into the first half of the pitches so you know we have 40 founders here who've all started startups who have all gone through Y Combinator and raised money and they are super excited you saw it out there they're super excited to meet with you tell you about their company tell you about their
business more importantly because you guys were engineers tell you about their products what stack they're using and hopefully get you excited because I think that what they're doing each and every one of them they got an amazing mission and they would be fortunate to have you on their team so we'll start with the first 20 it's gonna be like demo day two minutes each I'm gonna try
to move pretty fast and then we're gonna have a quick intermission we're gonna do the next 20 and then after that hopefully around 4 o'clock we're all gonna move back into that room so if you found some founders that you really liked or products that you really liked make sure you can go and meet them make sense yeah all right all right but first hi I'm Ryan I have sent I hope each and every one of
you an email it felt a little bit like spam I feel a little bad I hope you forgive me but I'm glad you're here and my job at Y Combinator is to help these founders as well as the broader YC ecosystem find and work with amazing engineers why would I want a job like this so when I graduated from college I had the chance to be the seventh engineer at salesforce.com and I got to
work directly with Marc Benioff Parker Harris the founders I got to build things that I would not have been able to build anywhere else it's a 50 person company one day Marc comes up to me he's like I think we need to build something that is for like developers not just these salespeople what is it right and so I got to build the API right I got to build an API fresh out of college I got to build the
first marketing suite I'm gonna build their first internal billing system twice and I got the few things that like I would never have been able to do and learn more than I would never there whatever table view probably throughout my entire career right and so I obviously think that working at startups is amazing and I am super excited to be helping these founders and these companies work with you guys and
the other thing about my job is I get to like engage with so many engineers two colleges do people who sign up for working a start-up and I generally want to help each and every one of you in all transparency obviously I would love for you to work at a YC company but I'm open to chat about lots of things if you guys are interested so things you can ask me about things I love chatting about I
love chatting about engineering right again I was an engineer at Salesforce I was there for eight years I loved it so much because I got to grow with the company it was an amazing experience and then from there I got to go to another startup and do it again even smaller I ran an engineering team at a company called zora then went public last year and Vera was an engineering manager
again one of the most personally and professionally satisfying things was finding great people putting them in roles where they would just Excel and crush it they learned a ton and it helped the company and a couple of them were actually here today and so I'm just super excited to be working with each and every one of you if you guys want to talk about engineering careers process you know moving into engineering
management I'm here to chat I also love talking about products and platforms so most recently I was a p.m. at lyft I got to be the PM of the platform p.m. of the identity and p.m. of the IPO yes you need product managers and engineering teams to take a company public and then I did partner engineering and developer advocacy at lyft all right Twitter so if you guys are curious to know what it takes to get
into p.m. what it's like you want to make that transition or if you just want to grouse about your product manager I'm more than happy to chat about those things and last but not least I love talking about startups I work at YC I started a company that went through Y Combinator it was an amazing experience I started another company after that my entire career has largely been
working at startups big and small and that's what we have represented here today we have a lot of bigger ones and smaller ones so hopefully you guys get to mix with a lot of them and for what it's worth I got an MBA at MIT with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation so again if you want to talk about startups you're thinking about an idea or you know you're curious to know whether or not an MBA could actually
help I'm here to chat here's my email address you probably already have it but seriously if you want to get coffee if you want to stop by the office if you just want to chat if you're from abroad you know we can find time and I want to see how I can be helpful cool awesome so we're gonna have Jeff come up here and chat a bit about his thoughts on why I see as the new president of Y Combinator
give him a round of applause thank you Jeff thanks Ryan thanks everyone for coming out this amazing event I love this event so much because it has the potential to change trajectories of not just you guys but of the hopefully YC companies that you join I was really glad that Ryan asked me to to talk a little bit because it caused me to reflect on on my journey from being an engineer through a whole
bunch of other changes and I thought a lot about what it meant for me to when I finally joined a start-up I'd like to talk a little bit about that but I also been reflecting I like talking about all those same things that Ryan likes to talk about about startups about engineering about the trajectory of your life so if you guys want to reach out to me I am more than happy to find time to
grab coffee I probably can't do it with every single one of you mostly I talked to people about why they should start a startup but I think joining a start-up is probably the second best thing so I was reflecting especially based on what I did in my career about joining a start-up versus working for the man so who here actually works at a start-up today who wants to work at a startup
right who wants to start a startup okay so someone who wants to work at a start-up why anybody growth your growth both anybody else why work at a start-up it's exciting risk risk right these are the best years of your life right you're the most energetic the most creative most of you are the most free and unencumbered that you'll ever be in your life now is the time to take risk
even though it's not that much risk and we can talk more about that so you should choose carefully now right choose carefully maximize time it's the ultimate resource that we all have to little of maximize your time now and maximize your future I'm gonna talk a little bit about the future and why doing a start-up today it's probably more meaningful and more important than maybe in the past but you
guys know this whole movie franchise called back to the future familiar with that Michael J Fox goes 30 years back into the past and basically the only thing that changed was the TV was black and white instead of color it was pretty much the same world he was fine he he was on a skateboard and he skateboarded around and and changed the future I guess can you guys imagine what would be
like for you to go 30 years in the past you'd be lost no internet no mobile phones how many of you own a laptop put him away all gone nothing what how would you survive it would be pretty different now go 30 years in the future and come back to today what's that going to be like change is not slowing down it's speeding up probably all be pair programming with an AI that makes suggestions fixes your
bugs before you even make them maybe helps you structure your code better or maybe it'll be the other way around and you'll be looking over the shoulder of the AI and trying to make suggestions as it writes code but the man it's tempting right yeah yeah good salary publicly traded stock maybe look at RS use great benefits maybe you'll work at Apple in a cool round building and there's lots of
infrastructure and support you might even be able to join a softball league pretty great and startups they suck they're hard it's stressful a company could die any moment you work long hours with little vacation little support probably worthless stock how's my sales job going so far but remember in that uncertain future there's no such thing as lifetime employment most of you will
probably have 5 to 7 jobs in your life there's a little control over what you do in less freedom and for the most part and wait until I talk about my career your impact will be minimal minimal think about the impact that Ryan talked about having at this amazing company that we think of as a franchise as the man in Salesforce probably it'll be boring usually it's kind of boring because it's less innovative less
interesting so what matters to you by the way I know I'm preaching to the choir but it's nice to reflect on it a little bit you want to maximize your impact your own satisfaction nothing is more important to that satisfaction than with whom you are working the people the team nothing bonds you I'll talk more about that to a team than working at a start-up than fighting a good fight than
being at war maybe you'll work it the future slack and maybe your stock will go public at a twenty two billion dollar valuation that would be cool right and for those of you and there are a good number of you who are interested in being a founder there is no better path to being a founder than to seeing what it's like on the ground at a start-up startups build winners it's the best thing you'll ever do it's the best
memory you'll ever have in your employment you'll build amazing skills like self-reliance and resilience and so many more better communications you saw good Ryan was you should have seen him ten years ago he was probably terrible you'll do more and you will make a difference you will matter it's the tightest you'll ever be with the team think about what Ryan said about talking to Benioff think about in
your current job if you're working at a big company how many degrees of separation there are between you and the CEO more distressing especially when I consider my career is the number of degrees of separation between you and the actual customer and user of your software so yeah there's incredible highs and lows at a start-up but the highs feel great and the victory is
sweeter than anything so let me tell you a brief slice of my history I don't think I had actually heard the word startup before I got out to California in the early 80s and worked at HP we literally called it a fur-lined rut I'm not making that up when I was at HP I worked in the operating systems group originally on an operating system that's gone on the equivalent of the shell that's gone now
look from that long ago it's ancient history maybe it would have been gone anyway but the impact was nothing even then making small changes to a shell later I did some really cool work on tcp/ip frickin hacks tcp/ip broke tcp/ip because HP was gonna have a different tcp/ip than everyone else that project was cancelled and killed before I even left HP I finally escaped and here things started to change I was a
presence provider for the World Wide Web you don't even know what that is I went to companies and brought them online created a website got them connected to the web I talked to customers I shook their hand that was radical for me I wrote software that they used directly that became even more true when I had my next startup because that one failed because I'd picked the wrong co-founder
that happens here I wrote the code I did customer support I was the product person by the way the customer support I did for this product which was a person look up and free web page service was so cool it was all in Emacs and I built it all myself I really actually should have made that the product because it was a much better product than the actual thing but that led in the end to me
working with the best team I've ever worked with as an engineer Dave Nakayama and Anton Ollie t'lani and Larry Dreeben and Brian woods pictured in this picture actually built rocket mail which became Yahoo Mail in the late 90s let me tell you that was a cool success story but like we were acquired but this was way late in my life in my career I acquired a wife and a kid along the way as well pretty late it's
not an impossible story and for those of you who were in that stage of life like I was it's awesome you can do it but let's think about how to choose a startup and I'll leave you with those thoughts okay so you should check out work at a startup right you should come to the startup Expo okay check but think about the company that you're gonna join find a problem that you really care about that
matters to you find a team that you like you know when we talked to two founders about who they should hire we often invoke what we call the Collison true laughter Patrick Collison who said when I hire someone I think about coming in on a Sunday and when you work at a start-up you will come in on a Sunday and finding this person there is the only person in the office and I think to
myself am I really happy or am I kind of sad you should think of it the same way think of coming in on a Sunday with the team that you're looking to join how happy are you search for a mission search for something that for which you'd sacrifice so research be proactive you can get a referral you're meeting a whole bunch of people here it's a really tight community the startup community
you'll know somebody who knows somebody who works at the company you want to work at and think about the variety of sizes and sectors available to you in the startup world and just remember when you interview at a start-up it is really hard to resist someone who's good but that knows you and really wants to be part of you take that approach and you'll get to join the startup of your
dreams so Ryan said I talked about YC so I'm really ought to YC he's been around as many of you know since 2005 so this is our 14th year and in that time we funded over 2000 companies this is a right place to start all right this is the right place to think about joining a start we have over 4,000 alumni founders though by far the largest startup network in the world the companies have
a combined valuation of over a hundred and fifty billion dollars and the only reason I include that is so that these really are good companies there are a host of really solid companies over a hundred companies that we have funded so far today have a valuation of over a hundred million dollars and these companies do create jobs only the top 100 companies have created over there
nearly 30,000 jobs many more for the rest this is a great path into the startup and as Ryan says I hope you find your way to a startup I hope it's a YC startup but I hope it's a startup because I think that's the right trajectory for many of you maybe most of you because it'll give you the skills that you need for the rest of your life and the rest of your career and more than that it'll give you the
satisfaction give you a satisfaction that you can't repeat anywhere else so good luck to everyone I hope you have a great Expo thank you [Applause] all right we are just gonna switch over one more slide you guys should have gotten an email how many of you guys got one email with a magic link raise your hands it's my way of getting it all stretch all right so anyway now is the time to
open up the email to click on that link and if you have done so it will open up the directory right you can also type in this URL really quickly if you can actually hit this QR code I shot it from back there it worked on an Android phone yeah I know QR codes it's a thing so if you log in you will be taken immediately to the directory in the directory we have every single company that's
pitching in order right so you can follow along but more importantly there is a like button you know we got some software we got initiatives working hard on this but like there's a like button and when you click on it it will send a message to the founders and they will reply back right so that's the way of expressing interests the other way is if you click the like button you can
bookmark it so that way when you walk over there you know who you wanted to find and you can find them does that make sense everyone logging in can I give you like a five-second countdown and then get it going five four you guys excited 3 2 that was kind of weak come on you guys excited all right all right one so let's get it going thank you hi I'm Vijay I'm the founder and CEO of Eric's health we provide remote
monitoring for patients with chronic lung disease Eric's health is an opportunity to save lives using your engineering skills I'm a Stanford trained doctor and I've been part of two health care IPOs in the last decade I recruited a team of three Y Combinator founders from various batches and together we're taking on one of the biggest problems in healthcare which is chronic lung disease it is set to become
the number one cause of hospitalizations in America in the next few years we have developed a software based solution that checks in with elderly patients on a daily basis and we help doctors catch and treat issues early to keep these patients healthy and out of the hospital we are live and we're generating revenue we're still in stealth mode so you won't see much about us online however we did
raise a oversubscribed round with some amazing investors including floodgate village global and acme capital here's our tech stack and we're using it to save lives we're at Eric's health we provide a meaningful way to save lives with every code push we support the growth of all of our engineers with access to renowned mentors in Silicon Valley and development stipends we're building a diverse team and we look
forward to chatting with you thank you [Applause] hi guys my name is tane I'm co-founder and CEO at F Ellis if Ellis uses computer vision and micro fluidics in order to in order to do instant point-of-care blood blood monitoring that's what device over there that's a microfluidic channel we've trained tens of convolutional neural networks in order to segment hundreds of cell types
and classify those cell types using their morphology in order to generate something called a complete blood count one of the most frequently run blood tests in our healthcare system today here's a quick video of how a tholos works our product is actively deployed in hundreds of clinics today and we're generating tons of revenue you take a finger prick put it on the test strip
it's our test rip right there stick that into the device and within a couple minutes the doctor the oncologist or the care provider receives a blood cell count using our computer vision back in a fellow's just received the major FDA clearance a historic FDA clearance I should say a few months ago it's the first single drop test for neutropenia in history and it's a breakthrough for the 10 million
immunocompromised patients in this country that includes cancer patients people on immunosuppressive drugs people who are chronically immunosuppressant at risk for infections and it's the first-ever deep-learning based test cleared by the FDA and it really builds a foundation for all the new types of blood tests were gonna build to detect everything from a cancer all the way to an allergic reaction
we're contracted with some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the companies in the country with contracts valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars and we're actively deployed now in thousands of patients across hundreds of clinics and we've raised 20 million plus dollars to date with some great VCS like Sequoia Capital we have the backing of Nvidia and obviously the great folks
here at Y Combinator so if you want to build tech that saves lives and work with an incredible team of engineers please reach out my name is tane you can email us at at a fellas calm thank you so much [Applause] 20 percent of female founders have been sexually assaulted or sexually coerced by an investor less than 20 percent of them ever report and the main reason why so they don't want to hurt the future of
their company the few victims who do come forward do so to protect others because they worried that they're not the only one and chances are they're right because 90% of sexual assaults are committed by repeat offenders my name is Anja Norma Jean I'm the chief technology officer of Callisto and we built sexual misconduct reporting software for victims or if two or more victims had
the same perpetrator we connect the victims together any their options for taking action here's how it works a user creates a time-stamped encrypted record of their assault including the unique identity of their perpetrator that data is held in escrow that so that nobody not even Calista can see their information unless a second victim names the same perpetrator if there's a match
they are connected with the legal options counselor who is an attorney who can protect their conversations under attorney-client privilege the options counselor is an advocate who helps them understand all of their options and takes him on a path to pursue justice we launched four years ago on college campuses and we're not going to stop until we serve every survivor in the country the problem we're solving is one
of the most important human rights problems but we're also building a bleeding edge security platform - because the problem we're solving is how can we stop the spread of sexual violence while protecting the privacy and civil liberties of both the victim and the accused our stack is built a noted angular but we're looking for a diverse group of Engineers who can play around a complex stack our area of
expertise is an advanced cryptography and trauma-informed design so come visit us at our table so you can show you you can see a demo of our work we're backed by some incredible investors including Greylock partners the Skoll Foundation and Google org today I invite you to join our team of brave and brilliant engineers who are building the tools for survivors to speak truth to power and
advance justice thank you hello everyone my name is Jonathan and I'm co-founder and CTO at checker so a checker we started the company five years ago and we do background checks now our mission is much deeper we want to help fairness and bring transparency to the process and millions of people get access to jobs every month we do 1.5 million checks and growing fast we have companies like uber and lyft honoring
their drivers but growing into on-demand and also more mainstream companies the team is hundred people strong and we are doubling every year which is super exciting with lot of growth new teams forming new carrier grows for fine dividuals and best part we are making money we are profitable yeah on the engineering side so the engineering team is really building the future of our
product and directly tied to our mission and we do that with identity matching which is really the core for accuracy and machine learning most of the team are doing backend work so really reliable in a lot of integration with data sources and everything that we do impact millions of users and thousands of customers that use our product for via corporations a bucket checker is
very costly thank you come chat with us [Applause] do you like video games how many of you have heard of League of Legends pop G for Knight Counter Strike and dota okay but do you know all of these billion dollar games were originally created by individual video game models who have otherwise never have a chance to create video games professionally and sell them unless they get recruited by big
companies and that's why we're here dream craft is a platform to help these people millions of them create and sell their games and this is no easy task that means we need three revolutionary products we need a simulation that can render beautiful worlds that can power any sort of gameplay we need a editor that allow people to create content on top of that simulation and we need to release a platform to distribute all of
these content and sell them so a simulation and editor a platform a simulation an editor and a platform okay I think you get it it's one product and we're a start-up so I was told to talk about the tech stack but we can figure it out because we're determined and join us because it's super fun to work on games and it's super fun to help other people it's really satisfying watching our
customers using our tool to create great stuff and the best of it is what if some of them become one of these weird dream craft we help people create and sell their games here is a glance of what's possible with our technology right now thank you [Applause] hello everyone I'm Julia the CEO and co-founder of Donati technologies and we are working on building authentication
for mobile devices starting with a credit card scanning SDK so starting with the founding tape team me and my co-founder Lena are both EXO bur we built the credit card scanner in the uber app saw some great results and that's why we decided to start our company our first engineer jack is somewhere out here as well he was a former early Android engineer at whatsapp so more on the products it's
become possible very recently to optimize an advanced computer vision model to run entirely on device and that's what dinette II is leveraging to build authentication products to help mobile apps keep their platform safe and keep the experience secure for their for their customers so we launched the product very recently we launched the end of January very quickly signed on a ton of
enterprise customers raised a seed round from some exceptional investors and are now building out our team in terms of the tech stack there's really two components deep learning and mobile so on the deep learning side the backend is in Python and the front-end is in tensorflow light and for mobile the backend is in server side swift actually and the front is in Swift and Java so it's a great opportunity for anyone
who's interested in any of these technologies so why should you join us or why would this be a good fit the first reason is that if you're excited about our mission of making the internet safer by tying identities to people who are committing criminal acts online the second is if you're interested in maximizing your autonomy and impact at your next role if you're interested in
doing this and if you're interested in starting your own startup I would strongly recommend you work at a very early stage startup that is less than 10 people we're building our founding team right now and each of our founding engineers will have an outsized impact on the culture and the future of the company and finally I think we sit at an interesting intersection of two high-growth fields real-time mobile real
time fraud detection on and also deep learning on the edge so if you're interested in either of those it would be a really good opportunity for you we're kind of at an unmarked table near the blue truck in the other room so if you want to talk to us come find us there and you can also reach me by email at Julia at dinette II thank you hi everybody I'm Danielle I'm one of the
founders of fair fair is a wholesale marketplace that allows independent retailers to find products to sell into their stores now just some numbers first we started a company two and a half years ago we raised over a hundred million dollars from Sequoia YC growth and Lightspeed and others my Khosla and one of the fastest growing YC companies ever but those are just numbers and I want to tell you why this matters
we believe affair that the future is local what does that mean we want to help small retailers compete with Amazon and Walmart providing curated experiences to their customers and help local communities thrive today they are not equipped to do that and we want to help them through technology through our wholesale marketplace where they can find the best products to sell consumers
say that all else being equal the rudder shop at a local store so this is what we're trying to tap into in terms of our tech stack we were built on a modern tech stack that we built over the past two and a half years based on Kotlin Java Swift for the iOS and cotton again for the Android app we act on on the web so I think all technologies that you'll be delighted to code into and in general
like what would you like to work at fair so marketplaces are incredibly challenges businesses to build because you have to satisfy two different customers at each point in time so the the intellectual challenge is very high we are we are really care about good engineering practices my co-founder Mercer and I were the first engineers on the cash app team we built that from the
ground up we took all those learnings with us so things like automated testing and you know deploying often and writing code that is readable not only write once code and all those things we really care deeply about so I think you'll find an environment that it's a delight to work with and additionally data is very important to us I'm the chief data officer Marcelo my co-founder at the CTO we're both
important parts of the company and so you'll find an environment where you're going to a be test and deploy quickly so come help us build the future of local retail and help more small businesses thrive thank you hello I am Mike one of the cofounders of give campus and we are a platform that helps schools raise money fundamentally we think education is important and unfortunately in the
u.s. a lot of the money that helps run schools comes from private donors I'm sure a lot of you have graduated I've gotten phone calls direct mail I'm sorry it's 2019 it should be done on the web it should be easy to give online in a transparent way so you know where your money's going and hopefully social as well right now we focus exclusively on schools because that's what we care about and allows us to build a product
that's best for them we have former Facebook Amazon and Intel engineers and on a business side we have a lot of former fundraisers from schools so we have a lot of empathy for our end user where our current team is over 50% women or keep or a team of 28 or hoping to expand to about 50 by the end of this year and we've been profitable since early 2016 our tax deck is pretty basic
Ruby on Rails Postgres Heroku front-end it's vanilla Jas and react and we're we're headquartered in DC so we're hiring everything in DC literally everything and in San Francisco we're looking for a tech lead or someone who's more senior I see so come talk to us if you want and you care about education Thanks [Applause] hi I'm David CEO and co-founder of glide glide makes apps from spreadsheets
here's a quick demo and glide you choose new app you pick a sheet from your Google Drive Glide creates a default app that you can configure with components that bind to the data in the spreadsheet and sync bi-directionally then you can customize it further changing the layout and theme adding media like photos and then you can give it to your employees so for example in a bakery you could
stay on top of inventory we launched four months ago we were just in the last YC bash and we already have thousands of non-technical software developers we call them building and distributing apps every month for basically everything that you would use a spreadsheet for this becomes a business because a lot of people don't know about a phenomenon we call dark apps but enterprises spend a
lot of money building internal private mobile apps that never go to app stores and this is the market we want to go after a favor one of my favorite customer stories just from last week the largest real estate developer in saint louis missouri has always run their business on 7 spreadsheets and all of their employees carried laptops one non-technical employee built a glide app
that they opened 30 times a day they don't carry laptops anymore and it powers their business our broader ambition is to basically convert the billion spreadsheet users into work in the world into productive software developers like I said we are a young company we're just seven people and we're looking for our eighth so including you more than half the company is here today we have amazing investors and advisors
including the CEOs of github and figma we're on a wham C++ stack full C++ top to bottom on the front-end back-end so if you love C++ you love Glide of course I'm kidding we're a typescript glad that worked all right typescript of reactant firebase so very very standard stuff and something really remarkable about Glide is were half designers half engineers so at our booth you'll find printouts of the upcoming designs that
you'll actually be working on if you join us as a front-end engineer so we'd love to show you them and talk to you about them and thank you I can't wait to work with you hey everyone I'm Greg and I'm the co-founder and CEO of goodly and goodly is student loan repayment as an employee benefit which was just named as the hottest employee benefit by Forbes and the way that it works is it
functions in a similar manner to a 401k except we help employers pay off their employees student loans and it's something that's been growing like crazy in just the last couple of years this slide we actually have to update because when we submitted it there's about 4% of companies in the United States that we're doing it this was just revised and it was announced that 8% or the
percentage of companies offering this benefit has doubled in just the last 12 months and it's projected to grow up to 32% of every single company in the United States for 32% of all companies in just the next two years so in terms of how it actually functions the employees will continue to make the regular monthly payment and then using goodly software employers will make a secondary payment on top of that
directly to the student loan debt and by doing this we can help the average employee pay off their student loans 30% faster than the otherwise would so we're gonna be hiring for our first full stack engineer so currently my CTO who's also my co-founder is heading up our engineering team so we're looking to rapidly build out both our sales and engineering teams starting with our
first full stack engineer so currently our team is comprised of sales growth and home on who's our CTO and hitting the engineering team as well so we'd love to bring on one of you as our first full-time engineer outside of the founding team and in addition to having a really great founding team we're also very fortunate to be backed by some of the world's leading investors including both Y Combinator and also
Norwest so Norwest investment in Goodley was by one of their managing partners Jeff Crowe who's been on the Forbes Midas list for the last six years for leading some really great investments in companies as well so we also highlight some the recent press coverage we've been receiving as this benefit continues to grow it's something that's been gaining a ton of traction both with
employers employees and also the press as well so we'd love to hear from all of you feel free to stop by our booth or just shoot us a quick email at founders at goodly opcom thanks hi hi i'm ning i'm a co-founder and CTO at health trippa our mission is to help all Americans access health care through affordable health insurance we do that with a product that helps them find enroll in and use affordable health
insurance on the ACA marketplaces which means that they qualify for subsidies to reduce their monthly costs so far we even rolled over one point eight million people in health insurance that's seven percent of ACA enrollment this past year we've also helped those people save six billion dollars on their annual health insurance premiums our company is generating in excess of ten million
dollars in revenue per year and we are highly profitable and we're up 3xu every year in terms of that revenue here's a text Dec Ruby on Rails is there as mainly an API we're mostly in react we do a lot of data analysis and data science work in Python in R we also have some back-end data products that are supported by elasticsearch and MapReduce actually it's why we're here first off impact you're going to be
working on increasing access to health care by reducing the uninsured rate in America our typical consumer household makes $21,000 a year total in income and by using us they save nine thousand dollars on their health insurance per year we're also in a unique market position we are the first company with direct API access to the backend that power is healthcare.gov it's not easy to
get that on the consumer side we can fill the outreach gap as the administration rolls back their outreach efforts and on the enterprise side we are becoming the primary integrator for insurers employers and brokerages to enroll they're consumers in health insurance with subsidies the market opportunity is huge 45 million Americans lack health insurance today the work is interesting
we did it all this with four engineers so you're going to be doing full-stack work owning entire products in the end here are some recent projects like a health insurance recommendation engine that government API integration that had to pass a FedRAMP level audit meaning we can be a government contractor now and you have to architect the site to support 20x traffic spikes because
everybody weighs the last day to sign up like as mentioned small team owned the whole product you can work in San Francisco Sacramento or remotely and we're family-friendly and flexible in hours if you're interested please find me I'm in the booth I'm at the middle of the room and the expo you can also reach out to careers in health tripper comm here's the rest of the team I like I said join us to help reduce the
uninsured rate in America [Applause] hey I'm Paul co-founder and CTO of human interest we're helping everyone save for retirement with the power of software okay our product is a company benefit not a pure software product what we've done is we've built a 401k perfect for starts and small businesses they automate away all the paperwork and all the compliance work and sync with payroll plus employees can invest the
single click it's sort of like using wealth run inside of a 401k it's soap our mission is super important in super large scale all the small businesses in the United States only 20% of them offer their employees a 401k and yet the 401k is the primary means of retirement savings that Americans have with technology and and automation were able to make this reality at even small 510
person businesses all the way up to a thousand person companies so we did Y Combinator back in 2015 me and my co-founder Roger my co-founder has started many companies before this is his third successful startup I've been in the startup scene for very long I actually interned at justin.tv before they were twich flash-forward you know four years ago the company was me and Roger in my
kitchen now we're a team of 65 people downtown San Francisco and most importantly we're helping over a thousand startups and small businesses save for retirement most cool of all is that 75% of our customers have never offered a full 1k before us which is strong validation that we're able to expand this market by using technology and automation we're looking for back-end leaning engineers now one of
our engineers has been known to say coding is the easiest part of my job that's not to say that the job is easy but we're looking for engineers who want to go ahead and work closely with product managers stakeholders like salespeople and customer support people are helped define our product if you're someone who wants to start a company of yourself someday this is a great
opportunity to learn that skill and really help build a rapidly growing business our tech is pretty JavaScript heavy full stack type script right no js' and post cards on the backend reacting graph QL on the front end and middle stack but really it doesn't matter if you don't know it will teach you what we're actually looking for people who are excited about working on mission-critical projects like joining
us three-person team rewriting our core accounting system our culture is smart humble and hard-working some of us are college dropouts some of us went to MIT if you're that way too you'll fit right in so really exciting ly our Investor former series they actually quit his job as a VC to join and be our CEO our series B is imminent and our founders me and my co-founder we're working really
hard to get the next line of products out the door like the IRA and HSA so if you're really excited to join a company set inspection point come talk to us thank you so much i hi everyone my name is Samir magani I'm co-founder and CEO of insta work we're a mobile app that connects gig workers with hospitality businesses like hotels restaurants catering companies if you're wondering why I'm in black Bistro stay tuned the
answer to the question why you should work it in store work is the same answer to the question what do we do we help people get jobs if we're successful there will be more employment in the world if you're a small business owner a blue collar worker hospitality worker there is no work at a startup Expo there is no LinkedIn you rely on Craigslist or sign on the window we solved that by
building effectively an API for labor it's as easy as requesting an uber or lyft a business can come onto our app request a bartender or a dishwasher we facilitate the the curation of the labor pool we facilitate the matching billing and insurance we raise almost 30 million dollars including our Series A which was from Bill girly at benchmark we just raised our Series B a few months ago and
announced it because of our rapid growth and we're looking for great engineers and data scientists to help us accelerate that the great growth were already seeing we use a very modern tech stack and I want to highlight two particular things that we're doing we're investing in new serverless technologies to help us build more infrastructure scalable e we also built
an in-house framework to make mobile app development faster called hyper view which I encourage all of you to check out our core engineering values are respecting the team respecting the user and respecting the craft I also want to highlight one of our four company values which is empathy which is related to the last point and what explains why I'm in black Bistro today when Geoff Ralston was up talking
about why you should join a startup or if you ever desire to join a start-up the most important thing to know is you want to be close to your users most of us are not dishwashers we've never owned a restaurant and so it ins to work every single employee has to actually work a gig and it's the reason why debar she Adam and myself are dressed in black Bistro attire today if you're excited
about inventing the future of work we'd urge you to come check us out we're gonna be excited to meet you thank you hey everyone I'm Tariq CEO and co-founder at Kashi so coffee is a global betting site where people can bet on anything with anyone what this means is you can bet on things like brexit happen by the end of the month - who will win the Oscars our vision is to allow people to capitalize on what they
know and have opinions on everyone has an opinion so being able to convert those opinions into bets on our platform makes for a really big market opportunity there are no prediction markets in the u.s. today and we're on track to be the only legal one this is super exciting because we're setting ourselves to access an untapped market with no competition we're looking for a talented engineer to join and help us
shape the future of our product joining Kyle she entails getting exposed to all parts of our business he'd be working on the back-end infrastructure of a state-of-the-art trading exchange he'd also be developing a seamless and simple user interface for people who have actually never traded before and have no idea what trading is and finally he'd be exposed to the party machine learning
models on our trade data for our market surveillance procedures luan and I have both studied computer science and math at MIT we have extensively worked in tech and trading we're super small team super hard working and we're super excited about changing how markets are seen and traded on today if you're interested in talking to us you can find us our booth after this Thanks [Applause]
alright hey guys my name is David co-founder of keeper so we are an AI bookkeeper for gig workers and what does that mean so let's talk quickly about the problem that we're trying to address there are 50 million gig workers right now in the United States so think people like uber drivers freelance designers real estate agents etc and as a population they are massively overpaying on taxes if you're full-time it can be
as much as 2,000 or more a year and why is that so as unlike traditional employment as a gig worker you have to track your business expenses so things like phone bill or like business travel and the traditional way that's done is by like keeping a shoebox full of receipts or like plugging things into a spreadsheet and people do a terrible job at this and miss out on a bunch of money so what
we've built at keeper is a simple system our users link their bank account with us we use their work profile in conjunction with machine learning to find their business expenses and then we let them know about it over text so it's really a chat based interface as far as the tech as far as the tech stack is concerned it's been it's built the the product is built in react and node
Python for the data science so all of your standard stuff so we were in the most recent YC batch right now the full-time employees are just myself my co-founder Paul Paul comes from a product management background he went to Harvard he worked at Square and amplitude I come from five years of experience in quantitative trading so data scientists and we're looking essentially for a founding engineer who
will drive the engineering decisions of our company going forward this is sort of a unique role because neither myself nor my co-founder come from a strictly software engineering background so thank you [Applause] hey guys I'm Lea or I'm the CEO of lob comm and we actually went through Y Combinator in the summer of 2013 our current vision is to make the world programmable and what does that mean so
right now our current mission is to allow businesses to connect api's and then allow them to access the offline world through the online world so we have two products our first product is an address verification API if any of you have ever been on amazon.com and you're at the checkout page and you type your address in the shipping and you get it wrong you get that pop-up that says
did you mean this address well we power that behind the scenes and not just for companies that are operating the US but all over the world and our second product is a print and Mail API so think of a calm think of a company like Comcast - at the end of the month it needs to send statements we make that so they can do it all automatically without doing it manually which was the old-fashioned way so we've been around
for six years we're on pace to do around 80 million dollars this year and we power some of the biggest companies in the world right now we are the 61st biggest company within y comma nearby valuation and by the end of the year you might see some news and make us in the top 25 so ok our technology so all the code that I wrote back in the day in node is no longer scaling so we're
moving to go and elixir so we're looking for people that are really excited about scale type problems our machines right now are our systems we power around 100 million API requests a day and some of the biggest problems that we're working on is on the address verification product when someone submits a single line address to us being able to break down that address into its component
parts and figure out if that address is deliverable or not so that problem in the u.s. is a little bit easier because we have the USPS but there's 280 plus countries out there that do not have a postal authority or in high quality data so we need people to help us solve that solve that problem the second one is we send a lot of mail so one out of four households has received a piece of mail
from us that means that we have to figure out where to print all that mail and so on a daily basis when we get all those API requests we have to go and figure out where we're gonna send it to internationally in the u.s. that routing technology is a really hard optimization problem and we're looking for people to come in dogs interesting anyways the most important the most important part is our culture
so one of the things that I'm trying to do is create a culture where people want to stay for 30 plus years and so outside of some technology I really want to make sure that people who come want to help us build a really progressive culture whatever people are doing in Silicon Valley people are staying for one point X years and so we really have taken everything that people are doing kind of
thrown it out the window and we're trying and building our culture from scratch and doing really creative creative things so if you want to hear some of our progressive ideas and how we're building out our culture and how we want people to stay for 30 plus years come and find us thanks and we love dogs [Applause] what's up everyone my name is Chris Winn I'm the co-founder of log DNA we're in
the DevOps space so we have an engineering product built by engineers and what we do is we help engineering teams debug and monitor production issues what that really means is when [ __ ] hits the fan you look at us first right so how we do this is that we aggregate all the server application logs into one powerful platform so we work with over 3,000 customers may our customers are in the booth thirty five
million dollars in funding the real truth is when we graduated YC we were gonna die we did one pivot with 17 K left in the bank and three years later thirty five million dollars in the bank such a crazy journey and we're getting started great investors like the og YC gary tan alexis ohanian our investors and also emergence capital so they went public with zum-zum conferencing our
tech stack is node [ __ ] vue.js kubernetes rus and elastic so pretty damn Marvin our customers are the who's who's that you guys definitely know so at high scale we have reddit instacart all the scooters on the road from lime but what's pretty cool is we power IBM clouds global infrastructure for logging so they use our technology and even IBM Watson uses us which is pretty gnarly
you want to learn from the best so even I'm learning as well so we have great leaders from Facebook Heroku Nvidia and eBay I want to talk about our core values and company values which really resonates to me we have this company valley called hot pie so I got the hot pie character from Game of Thrones but age is honesty we're gonna be honest with each other we're gonna disagree which is awesome
oh it's open communication we're just super super important T's trusts P for us is passion so you want to be passionate about the idea you're working on but most importantly life is short you want a passion with the people that you work with I is idea and this whole notion of thinking outside the box doesn't exist in our world I'm more focused on what if no box existed what do we do Annie's execution so we've been
growing rapidly we we raised six months series B we tripled our ARR in six months so the best problems to have so much data that we had to build a new new Kafka called buzzsaw and we're gonna open source that I'm gonna have great mentorships across the board so our VP of engineering was number 200 at Facebook left at 7,000 and great players are gonna win games but my goal is to
win a championship and I love to do it with all you guys in the room so if you're down to work hard if you're down to take crazy risks but most importantly have fun my name is Chris Wynn I'm the one the pink shirt would love to connect with you guys thank you [Applause] hi I'm Erica co-founder of modern health I'm excited to share with all of you that just two weeks ago crunchbase named
modern health the number one startup of 2019 so we are the first mental health platform for companies and were powered by diverse and close-knit team of 20 people from gaming healthcare and security we're flipping the mental health industry on its head depression is the number one leading worldwide cause of disability and whether your employer actually has the leading health benefits modern health is actually here
to actually provide a proactive solution for anyone who wants to proactively manage stress or get ahead of depression and anxiety we have a pretty modern health stack Python janggo graph QL for the front end and we empower all our engineers at modern health to not just release product development but also to oh I'm so sorry I'm very vulnerable and nervous right now so I'm actually going
to just read from the notes sorry guys hey guys how have you don't mind I try to memorize it two minutes before the talk so python react and graph QL for the front end and we live the DevOps philosophy where we make data-driven decisions with monitoring and alerting and we empower all our engineers with owning not just feature development but also infrastructure we've tripled in
just the last three quarters we've raised over eleven million dollars from kleiner perkins Y Combinator and Jared Leto I know and as I mentioned we were selected as the number-one-ranked startup globally in 2019 and I'm doing a very poor representation right now all right why join modern health more important than all of that we live what we sell so the well-being of all our employees is our most important value
people legitimately love working at modern health join us and make your days truly sorry join us and spend your days truly making people around the world happier thank you all right how's it going folks so we're new front insurance we're in the commercial insurance industry and so this is an industry where companies spend over five hundred billion dollars a year on insurance and it's
foundational to our economy every business needs it and yet it provides a terrible client experience and so what we're doing is we're building a full-stack startup which means that we build software and a technology platform to support our own operations and provide service to our clients and we've had crazy growth I call it like white-knuckle growth we started 2018 with a hundred and thirty-five clients
and we have almost 3,000 clients today so if you look at our technology what's the goal of the technology that we're building it's to deliver an amazing experience to our clients when they transact and manage insurance on the back end we're using typescript and go micro services on the front end we've got react plus hooks and infrastructure is pretty standard with Heroku circle CI
data dog for telemetry in terms of our team were a 19 person engineering team growing we've got four people starting the next few weeks and we're a diverse group we bring people in from the insurance industry for me I'm in the middle of my career I've got a couple young kids we've got parents and grandparents on staff people that have been insurance for like 30 years so it's a really interesting team that work to
work with it draws from these two different worlds culturally we worked directly with our users so we're sitting in the same room and when you ship something you know you're solving real problems a live operational environment and you can walk down the hall and see people using your software later that day if you shipped in the morning let's say and then finally we have measurable visible
successes so we're very well instrumented in Metro size business it's a it's a pretty well understood type of business to be a commercial insurance broker and so when you ship software and impact those metrics you can see it and point to your success which is a lot of fun Thanks so that's new friend hi everyone my name is dureena and one of the founders of open phone so what is
open phone we give you a business phone number in an app on your cell phone we're building the modern business phone you would be surprised but the solutions on the market today and in today's a and age if they're a 30 in today's day and age the phone you use for your business can do so much more for you and we're really exciting to build the future of the business phone we launched just a
year ago and we were a part of YC summer 18 batch and we already have 4,000 paying customers so we really need your help to help us continue building the product quickly this is our stack we have mobile apps iOS and Android we're also working on the web app there are many very challenging problems for you to solve and if you want to work on a product that is used daily by a lot of people that rely on it for their
business you have the right the right product and we again we're solving a big problem in a massive market we have a small team a small but mighty and we recently closed our seed round so if you want to build the future of communications come talk to us we'll be over there open phone and have a great day thanks [Applause] hi there I'm Nick and one of the co-founders of out school previously a
high school teacher and also the first engineer hire at Airbnb so out school is a marketplace of live online classes for kids and we're different than most of other EdTech companies we're different because we're a marketplace a consumer marketplace that directly brings together parents and teachers and learners and we're different because of the format live online small group video
chat classes that make learning social and engaging our product is broad including both a marketplace and the communication tools for teachers to run their classes and communicate with kids we have a modern web app this is our tech stack we build on other tools where possible including building on zooms API to power our video chat currently the NGT ms5 people and we're looking to hire five more engineers by
the end of this year so here's three reasons to consider out school first we have a great team including experienced founders who are focused on building the company intentionally second by joining out school you can have an immediate and positive impact our product is already used by a thousand teachers and 30,000 families there are teachers earning a full-time living teaching on out school
and every day we hear from our users how out school is making a difference in their lives finally we have a great business a product that people love 5x growth last year a sustainable business model network effect business a Series A from Union Square Ventures last fall the capital to grow our team our biggest challenge is hiring engineers thank you all right you guys having fun yeah all
right we're running a little bit up behind schedule we got about at 15 to 20 minute break do not go far cuz we're gonna get right back out here start at 3:00 3:30 and then yo and by the way there are a lot of people over there who would love your seat so let's take a quick break don't go far thank you you you don't want to hear me talk so we're gonna have the first of the second batch
come out and I believe it's patched so give a quick round of applause stretch a bit all right hey guys I'm Wei CTO and co-founder at patch medical I'm also Australian so I can be pretty direct and I just wanted to say come work a patched and I mean it but this applies for you if you are somebody that deeply cares about people it's interesting to what we do you're obsessed about solving difficult
problems you want to optimize your career for growth and new experiences and you want to make a disproportionate amount of impact and have a disproportion amount of responsibilities so what we do is we are triaging and preventing readmissions due to a condition called sepsis in patients that have been discharged from hospital we do this with wearables and deep learning sepsis is the body's dysregulated
response to infection and actually affects more than six times and six times more Americans than breast cancer each year it's also very personal problem for me because my co-founder had 18 episodes of it so however we have built and validated an algorithm on 48,000 patient records that beats current standard of care measures on metrics like area under the curve sensitivity specificity and positive
predictive value we're a highly technical team backed by key medical advisors in the space and we're looking for machine learning and software engineers to help us build out our system for FDA approval really it's only because of recent changes in regulation that healthcare is ready for AI and what we are trying to do so to summarize our vision is that no one should die from
preventable episodes of sepsis we believe we can address this with wearable monitoring and deep learning models to predict that and we really just need the right people to build this company with so if anything that I've spoken about today is interesting it all to you please come find us at our table we'd love to have a chat I get to know you and tell you more about patched thank you guys [Applause]
hi there I'm Lila Avery founder of pull request and we build code review as a service that's the combination of a network of on-demand reviewers with automation to make sure that code quality is high on every team every person in this room commits a bug for your code every time to think about your teammates that don't we're here to help them why does this matter why are we building what we're building today we
process three million lines of code and tag it that allows us to categorize when people make bugs what causes them and their solutions we're building the AI that Jeff talks about today at the beginning of this session we work with the three major providers to make the seamless process of code review possible gitlab github and bitbucket we of course love gitlab best our stack is mostly
going to react but because we can review in any language we actually have products across everything from closure to Elm to well know C++ on Apache yet if you want to build a future of development with us we'd love to talk to you we're hiring for everything and really if you love and they're passionate about engineering you can work with us and our thousands of world-class engineers again I'm Larry
thank you have a good day [Applause] hey my name is Gregory Coburg er and I am the CEO of readme so we help companies build an amazing developer experience for api's how many of you have used api's pretty much all of you what's your favorite API he all some out scale okay Alex so the reason that you love things like scale and stripe and totally hooks they have beautiful interactive documentation and that's
what we bring to thousands and thousands of other API companies out there so first TECO's is pretty basic we use node [ __ ] angular react all that stuff but we're letting people now send API logs to us so we're gonna be dealing with a lot of big data going forward so if anything like that interests you I'm taking tons of data and making it very easy for people to kind of understand
and debug their stuff we're a great place to go oh I keep going forward by mistake anyway that's that and next slide okay this is why bribe you so aside from like having great benefits good pay all that kind of stuff we also do quarterly off sites with the entire team to bring people from all over the country and so we've done Hawaii Austin Chicago bunch of really cool places recently so we do that for
product roadmaps and stuff like that it's not a lot of fun and lastly I wanna talk about how we interview so one thing we do that's interesting is I would do two things when people interview it's a little different than other companies the first thing that we do is to make sure that you know exactly what's going on the entire time we sound out a website with everything you need to know
who's gonna be interviewing where they're gonna be asked exactly to prepare and second is we have people bring their own project we don't give you a tech project to work on we let you bring whatever you want to work on because we want to see something that you're excited about we want to see you work at a code base that you know and see how you work so we're really hard to kind of change how people do technical
interviews this is a team that you'll be working with our bit bigger than this read will over 20 now we're looking for front-end back-end full stack we're looking for people who like data back-end databases things like that for dev evangelists and support engineers as well so if any that sounds great come find us and we just being around from Excel so we're growing pretty quickly
over the next few months and if you want to find out more you can just type that in your command line prompt and you'll see a bunch of more information we're in the back left back in the other place to see you soon Thanks all right hi I'm Adam Mackenzie CTO and co-founder of rescale so let's talk about buying a supercomputer so companies that do heavy-duty scientific computing often
have workloads that look just like this right and you know they can go out and buy a supercomputer they have a fixed set of capacity fixed set of hardware it take months to install and it cost a bunch of money and once finally up and running during those low times they'd have a bunch of idle capacity during peak times their engineers and scientists would be waiting in queues so
why buy when you can rent and that's what rescale provides as an elastic on-demand supercomputer ready to go in minutes customized for your exact workload so we do this by building on top of the major public cloud providers using the top commercial open source and private simulation software enabling these customers to bring products to market faster our stack is react front-end python django web tier
Postgres and Redis Java and drop Wizard services for all of the cluster orchestration frameworks again we're doing that across all the different public cloud providers so why work at rescale we have a great team headquartered here in SF we've had a hundred people we've got people all over the globe we have some very exciting customers doing very interesting things so Nissan is
doing their crash test analysis for all their new cars on rescale boom another YC company is designing you know bringing supersonic travel back it's a very interesting project so again we're looking for all types of Engineers DevOps front-end back-end and data so if you're like into this interest you please come talk to me or in the back corner thank you [Applause] hello hi i'm jacob CEO co-founder
revenue cat we're in YC last year we are in app subscriptions made easy in-app subscriptions our subscriptions on the App Store or Google Play Store on mobile we help developers make more money with their apps that's a great mission we're all developers we all like money how do we do that we give developers an SDK and a back-end right out of the box so they can add subscriptions to their apps with
just a few lines of code get up and running in a couple days then we provide them with dashboards integrations everything they need to not have to worry about scaling the business side of their of their app and they can just focus on like making their users happy so we help them also with price testing LTV analysis all kinds of neat stuff that's kind of a pain to build if you're
a small team this is our dashboard in react that gives users like a good view of like developers of view of how their app is monetizing we're doing really well I wish I could add the next month to this cuz it'd be like here which is really good we had a great month and we used some very special technologies Python Postgres this one react that's pretty fancy and then everything is on
AWS and Heroku we we like to keep it really simple because the more complex it is though it's hard okay so we're serving like 50,000 requests per minute right now sometimes it Peaks to 80 and we get a little sweaty we're really hiring for vacuum people if you've done databases at scale especially that's really where we need help like the biggest app my co-founder and I ever worked on was like 3k for a minute and
so every day we're just kind of like glad it's still running I hope it'll have any customers here no it's great we have alarms everything's fine we're an engineering driven culture we're all engineers building products for engineers so that's really fun we love tests who doesn't love tests we have to have them otherwise we would make bugs more and developers are our customers so yeah
if you work in back-end we're also hiring like developer support people like constantly sending us intercoms and we're buried so that we could use some help there too yeah that's it thank you very much hey I'm Parker Conrad I'm co-founder and CEO of rippling and we make HR and IT software for small businesses so I'll pause while you guys all yawn quickly but you know if I were
saying up a new company and I told you I want to set up systems to track revenue or customer data and I said I'm thinking about setting up a hundred separate databases that don't talk to each other to track the same information and I asked you if that was a good idea you don't say no that's crazy why would you do that and if I said well what's wrong with that you say well how you know if
somebody changes in one system are you gonna manually change it in all these other systems and how what happens if these systems get out of sync or what happens if you need to add a record or you gonna add it in a hundred different places but secretly that's the way employee data works at almost every business out there because companies have usually about a hundred systems where they're tracking information about
employees most business systems at some basic level track things like usernames and passwords for all the company's employees sometimes they need to know their department their manager and it's precisely because companies have all these different disconnected business systems that companies feel like man it's a lot of work we've got too many systems around here like I don't want to
have yet another system that onboarding new employees is a pain in the ass there's a lot of administrative work and really the way that this should work is you should have one underlying system where companies and their employees could come to hire someone to make changes to terminate them and that system would handle the propagation out to everything else that's what rippling is and that's what we do on the metric
side the thing we're most proud of is we have a Net Promoter Score today that's in the high 60s a startups have charts of revenue that go up into the right this is actually our month over month growth rates for our latest financing and so our month over month growth rates we're going up into the right we haven't sustained up into the right growth rates since then but it was
pretty cool while it happened we recently we recently raised a Series A from kleiner perkins rippling is a series a company we've actually raised about a hundred million dollars though and yeah we'd love to talk to you we're hiring in lots of different roles thanks [Applause] hey everyone I'm Alex CEO and founder of scale so our vision is to accelerate the development of AI applications almost
everybody up here as mention AI it's pretty hyped and and we actually think it's appropriately hyped we like to say that if software is eating the world AI is eating software and and I think I think one way to think about is if you were to if you were to place a bet on AI today that is sort of an equivalently good bet as betting on the Internet in the 80s so while we all might be talking
about it while it might seem very abstract the actual full net impact of AI and machine learning is likely to be extremely large over the coming decades and that's why we're really excited about it that's why we want to accelerate it we wanted to happen as quickly as possible and and really the problem is that supervised deep learning which is what most of the exciting results in AI are really coming from
supervised deep learning requires an incredible amount of data so if if we were to think about all of the areas in which we think that a I can make an incredible difference the way to solve those problems is through supervised deep learning and and the real bottleneck there is that it requires a mass amount of data to get there when we think about how engineering changes in
an AI development paradigm it's actually quite fundamental so in traditional software engineering the kind that probably all of us in the room are used to the way that you improve your system is by writing more code so the way in which we sort of build up these incredible systems over time is we write code we deploy it we figure out what's going wrong or what's going poorly and we write more code and so we
keep going on in this loop of writing more code deploying it figuring out what's going on writing more code and that's how most of the software systems in the world today get better now in AI development or machine learning there's actually a totally new way to change the performance of your system and that's just by feeding more data to the algorithm and so if you look at the
machine learning teams or the machine learning systems in most of these companies that we really respect like Apple Google etc the the loop is you you label data you retrain your model you evaluate a new feed more data to the algorithm well we've built is an end-to-end API driven platform for ground truth data so we've built a dashboard for dashboard and toolset for going through data and labeling it an
API for that data to be sent to us and for it to send us back to send back to the customers and then custom our dashboard for them to be able to look over all of that and behind the scenes we have a network of labelers who does do all the labeling and sorry I'm getting a time check so I'm gonna keep others or rush through the rest and then we and then we do a bunch of machine learning to accelerate the labeling I'm
gonna skip this we work with a bunch of great folks a lot of customers you probably recognize opening aiwei mo cruise etc lyft and we've grown a lot just in the past year our team has grown by more than three times and our team is really incredible we've raised more than twenty million dollars from excel index Gregg Brockman not for a minute cetera cool check us out at our booth [Applause]
alright hey everyone I'm Ilya I'm one of the co-founders at segment as a second is an analytics platform that helps companies collect data around who the user is what they're doing on the site and then integrated to 250 tools that they would be using to analyze the data so tools like Google Analytics Marketo KISSmetrics Optimizely bigquery tools like that and so while that sounds simple there's actually a lot of
customer data infrastructure underneath that so just like AWS might have hundreds of services we also have a lot of different services and products to help customers manage their data so I want to highlight one personas which is when we started in 2017 and then took to market in 2018 so we treat all of our teams that segment as startups within a start-up so that was five engineers they
started the product market fit cycle and then actually you know worked in the closed loop with customers and then today that business two years in is a ten million dollar business just in itself and so we launched about two of those products every year so a second today is 19,000 customers across how many companies we work with startups and then enterprises as well and then we build data pipelines that's basically
our main job so we get an average of about 250,000 messages every second that we're standing here and then during Super Bowl during the Indian Premier League that happens in India it's the most streamed event our API goes up to 750,000 messages a second so this is within an order of magnitude of kind of the world's largest API is like dynamodb and Google Analytics and then we do a
lot of cool visualization as well and react and in the front-end stack we also do a lot of open source so we have about 500 repos 50,000 stars we give back a lot to that community and so the actual personas engineering managers they're on the left he is there another building so you should go talk to him and then a person hiring full-stack is on the right thank you so much [Applause]
hey everybody we're simply insured we are a hundred percent online way to buy health insurance for your small business all across the United States we can instantly quote every health plan from every carrier all across the United States 100% online application process and 100% online management one of things I really love about what we do is I can talk to you about our tech stack and all
this but I think I want to share with you is a customer story from one of our customers from a couple years ago she was in the ER because her husband had just had a stroke and she realized as they frantically rushed to the emergency room that she did not have her ID card for her health insurance it was an 8 p.m. on a Saturday she tried she thought about hey will maybe I'll call the insurance company
unfortunately insurance companies aren't open at 8 p.m. on Saturdays to take your phone calls luckily she was a customer of simply insured we've built a product called mobile ID cards that allowed her to log on and get access to information instantaneously so that she could get access at the ER that was only the first of the many message she went through that night she after he gave her ID card
to the person across the desk should that person said well this isn't valid you actually don't have insurance from this company that you're paying over a thousand dollars a month to she started to panic luckily because she's a customer of our company she was able to go log onto our website call our customer support team we were able to navigate with the person across the
table from her to say yes you do have coverage and she was able to get the life-saving surgery that her husband needed the reason I share that with you is that's that is the mission of our company our goal is to eliminate people's fear from their health insurance and that's all the software that we built all this stuff around quoting and applications and all that stuff it's designed to make it so that
when anytime anybody walks into a doctor's office emergency room or anything else they are that experience is amazing instead of what it is currently from current insurance companies I have some slides here but I think my story is better we have a reactant Redux front-end stack Ruby on Rails on the and everything runs on Amazon Web Services I think the real reason to work
with us is if you want to eliminate fear from health insurance you should work it simply insured we've signed up two of the largest small business focused companies in the world Intuit and square they are distributing our platform to all of their small businesses it's means we're growing we've tripled the team in the last year and that's thanks hi my name is Lester and I'm one of the founders of slapdash
as we've moved our work to cloud apps like github asana Trello Google Docs we've actually taken a major step back in terms of human-computer interaction I've actually thrown away decades of that work if you think about it you can no longer search or actually even create folders around any of this work in the cloud these are simple things that you can do on your desktop well we effectively do is build an
operating system for all of your work in the cloud it works across all of the apps that I currently mentioned imagine being able to do 80% of the things that you currently do within your cloud apps in one interface search your own work your company's work clothes tasks clothes tickets merch pool requests these are all things that are possible now while this is a really cool project
and a fun product to work on it's also the holy grail in the productivity space everybody actually wants to solve this problem of integration for companies but the winner in this space has to be neutral and they also have to have to have a fresh approach to the problem the way that we do it is we build a giant graph of all the data across all of your cloud apps and your company's cloud apps
now that data isn't static anytime a change happens in one of these applications we actually have a framework that mutates our graph to actually reflect these changes in these remote graphs and we can't just have the data we also have to deliver a low latency experience back to our users similar to that of a desktop experience so to that end we've built a database access layer that has built-in batching
and coalescing everything is really really fast by default and lastly this product has to be consumer grade so our stack is really modern tight script on the client-side and server-side graph QL of course react so why slapdash well you're gonna get to work on really really hard problems but at the same time the product is actually really tangible you're gonna be able to build and then
use the product that you've always wanted there's no better place to actually join a company if you're looking to be a founder in the future yourself you're gonna be able to see how everything is built from the ground up it's just us three founders right now and our founding team is really experienced our co-founder our CEO Ivan actually built a business unit at Facebook that's currently generating
somewhere around five to seven billion dollars our CTO Dima has sold three companies he rebuilt the whole infrastructure for whatsapp so to handle up to 30 million requests per second and this will be the third YC company that I'm gonna help get from zero to ten million in revenue thank you [Applause] hey I'm Josh so we're actually solving a problem that all of you are familiar with which is hiring because you're all
looking for jobs yeah so what we're making is a AI product that actually replaces human recruiters and what we've done is we've actually dog food our own product to build a really amazing team so if what you want is to work with a really great team you should work at sorcerous my co-founder was Dropbox his first chief of staff and actually paid her way through MIT by doing algorithmic
trading I published machine learning papers before and sold a company our Investor was a lead investor in box one of our engineers Abe was actually the CTO of another YC company another one of our engineers was actually the reason that opened or made an internship program another engineer in his like side project on the weekend made the state of the art Python profiling system
another engineer was featured in a book about deep work another engineer Tina got a scholarship to do her own machine learning research at the Ricker Center part of the reason why we have such a great team is that we really care about learning and growth at sorcerous we're happy to teach engineers how to do machine learning or how to become engineering managers we have weekly talks paper Club reading group advisors
from open AI and we pay for executive coaching conferences classes tools anything related to learning we also really care about making the world a better place we don't cure cancer but we do help companies that do we also do a lot of work around equalizing access to opportunity and reducing bias in the hiring process and also it's just really rewarding to help people find jobs that
they're happy with now is a really good time to join sorceress we actually have a lot of great customers in over two-and-a-half billion in annual revenue we have a same tech stack Python typescript react PI torch all the sensible things like benefits free meals etc and we just raised a ten million dollar series a about two months ago and we're looking to double over the next
year so if you're interested in joining a great team come chat with us afterwards [Applause] hi I'm Jordan from standard cognition I want to take about 20 seconds and talk to you about computer vision because I think that's really awesome what happens when computers can see as well as people I think if you really brainstorm that for a second you realize that the answer should be basically everything computer
vision should be one of these revolutions that changes the world the same way that mobile has the same way that Internet has but if that's true where are all the applications why has in computer vision actually taken over the world so we've all been thinking about this probably everyone's thinking in their head Oh autonomous vehicles that's that's the real application but it's
almost vehicles are probably 10 or 15 or even 20 years off so what really is going to be this massive application that changes the face of the world something that everybody experiences it's not just on Facebook it's not just Google search something you experience day to day across the entire world what is that gonna be it's not av it's checkout autonomous checkout in particular and inside of
real stores so this is an amazon.com ecommerce is less than 10% of what people buy in the real world where people spend money is real stores twenty five trillion dollars a year this market is it's it's crazy and we spend a couple hundred billion on checkout that's how much it costs to run cashiering across the world this is a massive massive opportunity and no one likes it no one
wants to wait in line we spend billions of hours human hours just standing waiting to get to the end of a line so that we could spend money this is the application that's gonna change the world first with computer vision this is why it's massive but there's another reason that's important and why it's happening now this is complex technology it's not quite as hard as autonomous
vehicles but it is really damn hard but the reason we can deploy this today is because we can afford to make mistakes when our system doesn't get something right you get ketchup for free no one dies it's completely okay retailers are ok with that shoppers love getting ketchup for free and what that means is that we get to deploy this right now in fact it is being deployed right now so Amazon has
deployed about ten stores just in the last six months we deployed our first store six months ago and the process deploying multiple stores this year this is happening really fast just want to take a quick couple seconds and show you why this is really cool why this is really hard some of the problems that we have to solve in real time while you're just looking at people from cameras alone no other sensors you have to be
able to identify every possible product in the world that somebody could be holding and it's really hard because you don't always have a clear shot of that person you have to be able to figure out what's happening through all the seclusion through all the complexity of what people do inside of stores and just give you one more quick example forget about people were holding this is called
visual tracking how do you identify people across multiple cameras and as they shop and really crowded systems this is our store in San Francisco by the way how do you do this without using facial recognition it's really hard problem if you read the literature completely unsolved this is just one of dozens of problems that we have to solve to bring this technology into production
so if you're excited about machine learning awesome please come to talk to us but if you're also excited about just Production Engineering high performance computing and even just good old-fashioned engineering bakken's in front-ends we do a ton of that too please come talk to us we'd love to talk to you thanks [Applause] we can't hi there I'm mark sorry hi there I'm Mark Freedman VP engineering at funk
able we have a product that enables anyone to create beautiful and powerful mobile apps we believe that almost everybody out there has an app that they wished existed in the world that will probably never be sold or distributed in any app store because it's what they want for themselves either they want it for themselves they wanted for their family they wanted for their team or
they want it for the world but no one else is going to build them so we have a platform that enables anyone to build these apps for themselves basically we have a drag and drop environment that lets you do beautiful UI design and a visual programming language that lets you do the minimal coding that you need to build these apps I don't know if you can read all the small print it's a similar stack to what everyone is
talking about react on the front end note an express in the backend we use react native on the mobile app side graph QL mostly now between front-end and back-end we do some extra stuff with Redis MongoDB for our database and everything is done is deployed in the Google cloud using kubernetes we're looking for basically full stack engineers and people who are excited about the mission that we have we are
strongly committed to diversity in our company and in our hiring and I'm sorry why should you join us so your mom will understand what you do for a living we kind of believe that you know this is something that's happened to all of you already out there you know how to build apps your creators in the world but most of the people out there are passive consumers of the high-tech world around
them we'd like to turn everyone into creators in that world and we believe that makes a difference in their lives and in particular it will help them to understand what you do for a living so thank you [Applause] hi I'm Hugh I'm the co-founder and CEO of theorum we're in the thin tech lending space what we do at theorem is we solve a really major problem when the contributed to the financial crisis 2007
so anyone here who's ever gotten a loan from a bank from a online lender from a non-bank lender at a card company wherever it is that loan is probably sold to someone else by the person you got the loan from and that person actually funded the risk the bank or whoever it was they gave your loan just took a fee for enabling the transaction the problem with this situation is that when the bank prices
your loan they're pricing it to make as many loans as possible not to make the right loan at the right price that causes them to make brought the bad loans that will put people in debt cause defaults and also calls investors to lose money theorem fixes this problem the way we do it is we go into lenders we build api's that connect into their systems and say to them hey
don't just send us the FICO score about the loans that you happen to make send us everything and then not only you're gonna send us everything but we're gonna price the loan and if you price the loan to the interest rate that we set up then you are going to have a guaranteed buyer for that loan before you've even made an offer to the borrower so we started this business five years ago we now make
unfund over 600 million six million 60 million dollars of loans every month we're trying to grow that to two hundred million dollars of loans over the next 18 months we work with most of the major online lenders in Silicon Valley that you have seen in the news are gone alone from and are starting to work with many traditional non online lenders the ultimate goal of theorum through doing
all of this is to make the financial system safer so that when investors know that they're funding loans that haven't been manipulated and created in a way that's going to blow up in their face we can provide capital more consistently to borrowers across the country and eventually across the world to build this tech stack we rely very heavily on machine learning to build our underwriting systems data engineers and
infrastructure engineers so that we can make those offers in less than 100 milliseconds and we're looking for people to join our small but fast-growing engineering team we're probably pretty different from most of the venture-backed startups out there we have built for scale and not for not not for hiring as as many people as you need we've tried to focus on having a small team that is
more of a kind of combination of a tech startup and academic research environment we try to focus on really deep technical problems our team right now is only 23 people but we've been able to grow to over 15 million dollars in revenue off of that so if you want to come work at a team working on hard technical problems that have a very meaningful impact on everyone in this room and everyone that you've known in
this room then give us a give us a ring thanks everyone I'm Ethan I'm co-founder and CEO of voice ops we help call centres understand their customer conversations so we work with sort of like the classic call center you see in like movies these are like sprawling sales floors there's like loud music in the background they're pounding the phones dudes are like fist bumping when they close the
deal it's that kind of place and they're making tons of calls like thousands by the hour and so the biggest problem for executives are these call centers it's like how do you figure out what's actually happening in these calls are my reps actually saying the right things to my customers to close all the deals and so what we do is we start with these sprawling call centers that are like
making lots of calls and then we take the recordings of those calls we transcribe them to text and then we go sentence-by-sentence on those transcripts and figure out all the important things that happened on each call and then ultimately ends up in the dashboard so we go from like messy human conversations to structured data that you can use to pinpoint problems and make your call center work better we
have lots of traction we've raised the 11 million dollars have customers you've heard of like square we're growing twenty five percent month-over-month right now so it's crazy time in terms of our engineering team so I think like what's really exciting is that if you come to voice ops you're gonna be engineer number three so even though we have you know lots of traction you know
things are really exciting right now it's still a small team and so you're gonna come on day one and get to own lots of stuff and make a big impact and work on really interesting problems some of those problems are like pretty like like you know sort of frontier like how do you actually take messy human dialogue and make sense of it and structure it in a way that is really accurate how do you then optimize sort
of scale that up and and optimize some of those data pipelines so those are the kinds of things you'll get to work on you know I think like the the best thing about voice ops is the the team we have a really tight-knit community like our sort of view of the world is like we're experienced agnostic so we don't care if you have 10 years of experience or 0 years what we care about is two things
are you really smart and are you really tenacious and if you have those things then we want you on the team and what that translates to is we all really trust each other to get the work done and we're all like really intense this is like honestly not a work-life balance kind of place we work really hard but just be candid but but it's really fun because like we're all really intense
we're on a mission together and it's like one of the most rewarding experiences that any of us that are at so come talk to us we'd love to chitchat [Applause] hi everyone my name is Hannon I am the co-founder and CEO of valensa we build autonomous aerial delivery solutions that is we build and operate long-range high payload unmanned aerial vehicles for point-to-point deliveries of time sensitive items we started three
and a half years ago were YC winter 17 company backed by Lightspeed ventures we've raised over twenty five million dollars in venture funding and we're a team of 30 plus engineers and operators based in the Bay Area we have several customers and our post revenue serving clients from the all the way from the US Department of Defense to Caterpillar and Merck there are free different
applications for our service we sell to the defense customers for surveillance and critical supply deliveries we sell commercial customers for shipments of spare parts to reduce downtime costs and we sell to medical customers for deliveries of vaccinations and blood and other medical supplies and we've done tons of really exciting cool projects we recently launched in the Bahamas we've
done in Ireland the reason Porto Rico in Africa in Southeast Asia all over the world our vision is that we want to enable and build the future of autonomous aerial mobility we're starting out with cargo because it's a lower risk category but obviously we want to change the landscape of Transportation and and we're really thinking about changing the world significantly on how we move things and
and transport people point-to-point just to give you an overview of what I mean by long-range and high payload this is our product portfolio ranges from 10 pounds to 200 pounds 60 miles to over 1,000 miles just quickly about our team we are a robotics first company we're not building autonomous planes were building flying robots and if you're interested in anything
around surrounding robotics and autonomy please come talk to us these are the current openings that you'll also find on our website and we're gonna be out there so please please come by and have a chat and we look forward to speaking with you all hi everyone Bloo last presentation of the day so remember zypher and so we just think the world would be a better place without facebook ads so what we do yes yes so we
help brands basically bypass Facebook to build community so we've built a back-end system these days a lot of computer vision location data or complex queries to help brands connect with their fans to drive engagement insights and sales so we were in YC winter 18 we just raised a series a we're on track to do six million in ARR this year we have brands like Nike lift Dior Kellogg's and
in San Francisco here is our tech stack so Python react native apps tensorflow on machine learning lots of cool stuff there and engineering challenges so four pillars and loads of cool features in our roadmap we're about to launch interest based communities so you can come in and talk about things that aren't brand centric and on the front end in mobile we're opening up API so brands can build on top of our stack we
are doing a lot of really cool stuff on the data machine learning side you just filed our first patent for the computer vision work that we're doing and a lot of predictive analytics and recommender systems so here is our product and engineering team we're really small and there is 12 of us in the team right now and I really want to keep headcount super low so if you want to really be
contributing and making a real impact then that's what we're looking for we are hiring three roles that I'm hoping to feel like today who front end back end date science and we're also looking for a product manager and UX designer so that is it the day is over if you want Reese's Pieces we are in the back Thank You Ryan as well alright that's it you don't want to hear from me
did you guys have fun did you guys find a company that you want to go over there and chat with it you haven't already chatted with all right if you're even thinking about leaving come to me and I will buy you some boba so don't leave there's mobile in the back the companies are excited to meet with you thank you so much for making it over let's all head back over there alright [Applause] you