Job Alchemist YC Application

Summer 2008Inactive

Job Alchemist went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2008 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 2008
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Luke GroesbeckFounder
Loc NgoFounder
Ben WongFounder

Job Alchemist's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Job Alchemist, Summer 2008 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Job Alchemist

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Software to improve recruiting and talent sourcing

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

We are building software that helps recruiting and talent teams find better candidates faster. It aims to automate manual processes and organize candidate data in one place so recruiters can be more effective.

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

We currently do not have a fixed location. After YC, we plan to base the company wherever makes the most sense to grow and access early customers and talent.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We haven't finalized a location because we want flexibility to work where the opportunities are. YC will help us decide based on where we gain traction.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Job Alchemist YC application?

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