The YC Effect: Charting How YC Makes Your Company Better

Curious what are typical results that come from all those meetings? 100 hours/week is a lot of time to spend in meetings & e-mails. How many new customers typically result from that? What sort of growth rate? What's the conversion rate for a typical YC company, and how much does it increase over the length of the program?

I read the article and don't think the premise was answered at all. Anyone get any value from it?

I'm not sure I understand how the time spent communicating is a valuable metric of how that made your company better.

Somebody here can hopefully help me with the quote, something along the lines of ~ it takes twice as long to write a brief letter as a long one.

The quality, not quantity of your communication is what's valuable. Does YC help with training you to better communicate? How is that shown?

Where is the time working on product accounted for? Or are you only working on communication (I understand People.ai only measures communication - but I doubt all you are doing at YC is communications).

The main selling point of YC is its network. I've always wondered how effective it is. We're always reading blog posts about the need for warm intros and getting help with press. With such a large number of hours spent on external e-mails, presumably you're exploiting that network? But you say in the post that is not the main benefit. Can you elaborate because I'm confused.

Pretty cool read. I'll agree with others that the title didn't make much sense to me, but the people.ai software sounds interesting.

Something like that for personal use could be neat to try. I'm not a sales role, but I would like to have something like this for engineering tasks.

Mark Twain or Shakespeare I'm sure has some quote about the inversely proportional relationship between self-proclaimed worth vs. externally validated worth, but I've noticed an increase in the amount of YC promotion as the value of the YC brand begins to ebb (airbnb trolling by NYC, zenefits and whatnot).

Great read. Thanks for sharing. After going through Techstars I can certainly relate to this post as I get the same questions. Overall it's really about how much you put in that determines how much you get out.