WorkLife YC Application

Winter 2015Acquired

WorkLife went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2015
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Dave KashenFounder/CEO
Val AgostinoFounder/President
Dave BryandFounder/Technical

What WorkLife does

WorkLife is a web app that helps teams have more productive meetings. There are over 3 Billion meetings/year in the U.S. and studies show 50% of that time is completely wasted. WorkLife helps you reclaim that time by helping you and your team adopt good meeting habits - create agendas, stay on track during the meeting, and ensure next steps get done afterwards. Most people spend the majority of their waking hours at work, and way too many of those hours in unproductive meetings. Your work life is a big portion of your life -- and the happier and more productive you are at work, the more fulfilled and energized you are in your life. Better Work = Better Life.

WorkLife's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

WorkLife

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

SaaS app to make meetings more productive

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

We built a web app that helps teams run better meetings by creating agendas, keeping discussions on track, and assigning clear next steps. It tackles the huge problem of wasted meeting time by helping teams adopt better meeting habits.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we already live and where most tech and potential customers are. Being here helps us move fast and talk to users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real WorkLife YC application?

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