Talentdrop YC Application

Summer 2021Inactive

Talentdrop went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Maddy NguyenFounder
Janelle TiulentinoFounder

What Talentdrop does

When it comes to hiring, there are lots of resources to help managers get more candidates. But on average, only 1 in every 300 of these candidates actually get hired. Hiring managers and recruiters end up taking a robotic, brute force approach to sourcing - the kind of approach top talent hates. Managers are increasingly finding that the simplest and most personable way to attract talent starts with their network. The best candidates want to work for great people, not faceless companies. Sharing open roles on places like LinkedIn, Slack, and Twitter unlocks enormous potential for a personalized recruiting approach across a curated talent pool, but these referrals are difficult to track across platforms and end up lost in the shuffle. We are changing that. After more than a decade building teams at high-growth consumer tech companies like Instacart, Snapchat, and Uber, Maddy Nguyen turned her attention to creating collaborative tools for hiring managers and recruiters to source candidates from a wider range of networks and communities - while staying human.

Talentdrop's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Talentdrop

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your personal hiring page.

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

We're building a tool that lets hiring managers and recruiters create personalized hiring pages they can share on LinkedIn, Slack, Twitter, and elsewhere. Our product helps them source candidates from their networks and track referrals across platforms, making recruiting more human and focused on connections rather than mass blasting job posts.

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

We live in Menlo Park, CA; Atherton, CA; and remote. After YC, we'd be based out of the Bay Area.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're already spread between Menlo Park, Atherton, and remote, which fits how our team works best. The Bay Area's concentration of tech companies and talent makes it the natural place for us to base the company after YC.

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 Talentdrop YC application?

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