RejectedByYC

Original by Leo. This version by Breck.

A curated list of companies and founders rejected by YC*

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Fredrik The story of when @DuneAnalytics applied to @ycombinator in 2018 . Was on the video call 9PM Friday night and sat there for 2 hours without it working. Never got rescheduled, then got bulk rejected a few days later. Took us another 6 months after this to close our pre-seed https://dune.com/
Joel Gascoigne When Buffer was in its very early stages, just a couple months after the product launched, we applied to be part of the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program. We were rejected... https://buffer.com/

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