Quest YC Application

Summer 2021Inactive

Quest went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 batch as a Consumer 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 2021
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 5
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Robert GaalFounder
Emiel van LiereFounder

What Quest does

Quest is a Q&A app where experts answer questions in short audio clips. We’re starting with career advice, hosting founders and operators from YC and companies like Google, who share intimate and personal stories about work you've never heard before.

Quest's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Quest, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Quest

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Audio career advice

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

We built Quest as a Q&A app where experts answer career questions with short audio clips. Founders and operators from YC and companies like Google share stories about work you won't hear anywhere else. Our product turns career advice into bite-sized, personal audio you can listen to anytime.

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

We live and work in Amsterdam, Netherlands. After YC, the company would remain based in Amsterdam.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in Amsterdam because that's where both of us live and have built the initial product and community. We want to keep close to the network of experts we bring onto Quest, many of whom are remote but whom we've connected with from Europe and beyond.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Quest YC application?

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