Triplebyte YC Application

Summer 2015Acquired

Triplebyte went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 70
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2015

Founders

Ammon BartramFounder/CEO

What Triplebyte does

Triplebyte is LinkedIn for software engineers. We help great engineers find work at the fastest growing companies in the world, with the least amount of time and effort. We work with a wide range of companies, including Apple, Facebook, Stripe and Dropbox and a lot more of mid-sized and smaller companies.

Triplebyte's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Triplebyte, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Triplebyte

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Intelligent technical hiring

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

We built a platform that helps software engineers find jobs faster and with less hassle. Our product matches engineers with companies based on technical ability, not resumes, and connects them directly to startups and tech firms including big names like Apple and Facebook. It cuts down the time and friction of tech recruiting.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here as well after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where most of our early customers and users are. It's also where our network and hiring market is strongest. Staying here keeps us close to both engineers and the companies we serve.

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 Triplebyte YC application?

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