The Software Behind YC’s Investor Day

mwseibel · on Aug 30, 2016

Investor day was epic - tons of props to software and ops teams!

auston · on Aug 30, 2016

I wrote my own version of this if anyone is interested in seeing how I implemented this: https://github.com/allynalford/investor_day

The relevant part is here: https://github.com/allynalford/investor_day/blob/master/app/...

bootload · on Aug 30, 2016

"We wanted to automatically generate the schedule based on mutual interest."

Dating application.

colinsidoti · on Aug 30, 2016

"We trade an order of magnitude reduction in the number of gaps for a roughly 5% decrease in the average meeting score."

I wonder if the investors would make this tradeoff if given the choice. Was this an instinctive call or is there data behind it?

Finbarr · on Aug 30, 2016

It was instinctive. We figured that if investors had schedules that required them to wait around half a day between meetings, they would be 1) irritated and 2) less likely to show up. I think we made the right call.

0003 · on Aug 30, 2016

>S16 companies had an average of 13.88 meetings with a median of 15 meetings. 15 was the maximum[...]

How is that possible.

detaro · on Aug 30, 2016

More than half the companies have 15 meetings, others have lower numbers?

E.g. if there are 100 companies, 75 having 15 meetings, 3 having 14 and 22 having 10 would give an average of 13.87 and a median of 15.

forthwall · on Aug 30, 2016

FYI, I'm getting this issue on FireFox

Hyphenator.js says:

An Error occurred: The operation is insecure.

?

hoodoof · on Aug 31, 2016

mee too