GrowthBook YC Application

Winter 2022Active

GrowthBook went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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: Winter 2022
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 40
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Graham McNicollFounder
Jeremy DornFounder

What GrowthBook does

GrowthBook is an open source platform to help companies make data-driven product decisions with feature flags and A/B tests. Existing SaaS solutions like LaunchDarkly require a company to send all of their data to them. This results in high costs, data compliance issues, and vendor lock-in. As a result, many companies end up building their own platforms in-house, which can take thousands of hours of work and lots of headaches. To solve this, GrowthBook uses a company's existing data infrastructure and business metrics. We believe feature flags and experimentation are the right way to build products at scale and that they will become a standard part of the development process. GrowthBook is well positioned to be a leader in this growing market.

GrowthBook's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

GrowthBook, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GrowthBook

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source feature flagging and A/B testing

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

We built GrowthBook to help companies run feature flags and A/B tests using their own data. Existing SaaS tools require data to be sent to them, causing cost and compliance issues. Our platform connects directly to a company's data warehouse and metrics, letting product teams test and roll out features without vendor lock-in or rebuilding internal tooling.

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

Jeremy lives in Palo Alto and Graham is remote. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA, with remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Palo Alto puts us close to other startups, engineers, and investors, while remote hires let us access talent beyond Silicon Valley. It's a flexible setup that fits the founders and growing team.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real GrowthBook YC application?

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