Candidature YC de Spoil

Winter 2015Inactive

Spoil a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Winter 2015 en tant qu'entreprise Consumer. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2015
Secteur d'activité: ConsumerHome and Personal
Taille de l'équipe: 2
Statut: Inactive
Lancé: 2014

Fondateurs

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

Ce que fait Spoil

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.

Candidature YC de Spoil, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

Spoil, promotion Winter 2015. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

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.

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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Spoil ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Spoil (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Spoil se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC Spoil appartenait-il ?

Spoil faisait partie du batch Winter 2015 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé Spoil ?

Spoil a été fondé par Charlie Gascon, Cristian Asenjo, Mikhail Levkovsky.

Que fait Spoil ?

Spoil is gifting for the Snapchat generation.

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de Spoil en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.