Pierre YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Pierre went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Jacob ThorntonFounder
Ian OwnbeyFounder

What Pierre does

We are re-building code hosting, code review, and CI primitives from the metal, for the next generation of professional developers: Small, focused teams, working closely, augmented by AI.

Pierre's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pierre, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pierre

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Pierre is a new, opinionated git platform.

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

We are rebuilding code hosting, code review, and CI primitives from the ground up for small, focused engineering teams. Our platform is built to help professional developers collaborate more tightly, integrating AI to augment code review and developer workflow directly in git.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Pierre will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is and where the concentration of early adopter engineering teams are. Being here keeps us close to users and the developer ecosystem we're targeting.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pierre YC application?

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