PingPong YC Application

Winter 2021Acquired

PingPong went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 8
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Jeff WhitlockFounder
Enaho MurphyFounder

What PingPong does

A video messaging app for remote teams in multiple time zones - it's like Slack for video. With PingPong, teams collaborate by exchanging short video, voice, and screen recording clips.

PingPong's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PingPong, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PingPong

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Video messaging app for remote teams

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

We built PingPong to fix remote team communication across time zones. Our app lets teams send short video, voice, and screen recordings instead of writing long messages or scheduling meetings. It's like Slack but focused on asynchronous video so people get their point across faster and with more clarity.

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

We live in Orem, Utah, and operate remotely. After YC, we would keep the company based here while continuing distributed work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Orem offers a low-cost base and a great quality of life for our small team, while working remotely lets us hire talent anywhere. Starting in Utah was practical and efficient for us.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PingPong YC application?

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