Spoil YC Application

Winter 2015Inactive

Spoil went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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: Winter 2015
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Charlie GasconFounder/CEO
Cristian AsenjoFounder/CTO
Mikhail LevkovskyFounder/Head of Engineering

What Spoil does

Spoil fundamentally changes the way people interact with each other. Spoil brings people closer to on another through genuine gestures that are fueled by technology. With a tool that empowers its users to engage in positive human interaction, Spoil inspire them to give, and enhances how they receive. Using technology, Spoil predicts what makes someone happy and leverages on-demand logistics to make it happen. With Spoil you can make anyone happy as easily as calling an Uber. Spoil is all about the experience we provides to both the sender and the recipient. Focusing on how we want the recipient to feel, each step of the process leverages the right emotions and builds a story around the Spoil being received. This makes sending a Spoil a thoughtful gesture as opposed to just an exchange of items. Spoil help individuals and corporations acknowledge people around them through genuine gestures. It is the only medium accessible to everyone that builds simple, contagious and ubiquitous happiness. Because, we believe that everyone should be Spoiled.

Spoil's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Spoil, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Spoil

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Spoil is gifting for the Snapchat generation.

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

We built Spoil to make gifting effortless and meaningful for a digitally native generation. Our product predicts what will make someone happy and delivers it instantly using on-demand logistics. The experience is designed around emotions, not just items, so sending a Spoil feels like a genuine gesture rather than a transactional exchange.

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

We live and work out of Berkeley, CA and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Berkeley is our home and a hub of tech innovation near San Francisco. It aligns with our founding team and allows us to remain close to key markets and logistics partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Spoil YC application?

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