EasyPost YC Application

Summer 2013Active

EasyPost went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2013
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 51
Status: Active
Launched: 2013

Founders

Jarrett StreebinFounder/Title

What EasyPost does

EasyPost is the missing API that makes it quick and painless to integrate shipping into your application. Some of the biggest names in retail rely on EasyPost to ship faster, smarter and cheaper. We manage the headaches involved with dated carrier technology so our customers can focus on what makes their business great. Integrate once with EasyPost and seamlessly add carriers, generate shipping labels, track packages in near real-time and insure your shipments. EasyPost is growing fast! Check out our jobs page and join the excitement:

EasyPost's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

EasyPost, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

EasyPost

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The shipping infrastructure of the internet.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built an API that makes it easy for online businesses to integrate shipping into their apps. It lets them add multiple carriers, print labels, track packages, and insure shipments without dealing with each carrier's outdated tech separately.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in San Francisco and remote locations. After YC, the company will continue being based in San Francisco with a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose San Francisco because that's where we live and where a lot of our customers and logistics partners are. It's central to the tech ecosystem and shipping industry contacts we need.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real EasyPost YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from EasyPost's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like EasyPost would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.