Go1 YC Application

Summer 2015Active

Go1 went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 650
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Andrew BarnesFounder/CEO
Chris EigelandFounder and CEO
Vu TranFounder
Chris HoodFounder/CTO

What Go1 does

In today’s environment, employees need training to ensure business compliance, skill development and to support an engaged workforce. Go1 brings together content from the world’s top training providers and makes it easy to access in whichever platform your organization uses. This makes it easier to deliver, manage and engage with training. Go1 also works with existing LMS, HRIS, and business systems to make learning simpler and more effective.

Go1's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Go1, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Go1

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A platform to train staff or customers

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

We built Go1 to aggregate training content from top providers and make it accessible within any platform companies already use. It helps HR and learning teams deliver compliance and skills development training without managing multiple systems. Our product integrates with existing LMS and HRIS, so companies can simplify employee learning rather than replacing their infrastructure.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we all live and where our initial customers and partners are based. Being here keeps us close to a large base of potential enterprise users and top engineering talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Go1 YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Go1's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Go1 would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.