Our World in Data

Application YC di Our World in Data

Winter 2019Active

Our World in Data ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2019 come azienda Education. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC
Winter 2019
Settore
Education
Dimensione team
19
Stato
Active
Lanciata
2018

Founder

  • Esteban Ortiz-Ospina
    Esteban Ortiz-OspinaFounder
  • Hannah Ritchie
    Hannah RitchieFounder
  • Max Roser
    Max RoserFounder

Cosa fa Our World in Data

Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Our World in Data publishes an open-access publication where users can understand the state of the world today, where we are making progress and where we are falling behind. Through interactive data visualizations we can see how the world has changed; by summarizing the scientific literature we can understand why. We cover everything from global poverty to natural disasters, education and health; we have 3405 charts across 297 topics. Our World in Data is free, open-source and provided as a public good. It has millions of users every month, and is cited in research and media across the world every day. This allows millions of people to understand the large problems the world is facing, and how we can solve them.

Application YC di Our World in Data, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Our World in Data, batch Winter 2019. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Our World in Data

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems

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

We publish a free, open-access publication with interactive data visualizations and summaries of scientific research across large global problems like poverty, disease, climate change, and inequality. Our site helps millions understand where progress is being made and where it isn't, by providing clear data and explanations in one place.

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

We are based in Oxford, England, United Kingdom, with a fully remote team distributed globally. After YC, we plan to keep this mix of Oxford-based operations and remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Oxford provides an academic environment that supports our research-driven work, while a remote setup lets us collaborate with a global team and reach diverse users worldwide.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Our World in Data?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Our World in Data (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Our World in Data si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.

A quale batch YC apparteneva Our World in Data?

Our World in Data apparteneva al batch Winter 2019 di Y Combinator.

Chi ha fondato Our World in Data?

Our World in Data è stato fondato da Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser.

Cosa fa Our World in Data?

Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest…

Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?

Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Our World in Data, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.

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