Our World in Data

Inscrição YC de Our World in Data

Winter 2019Active

Our World in Data passou pela Y Combinator no batch Winter 2019 como uma empresa Education. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC
Winter 2019
Indústria
Education
Tamanho da equipe
19
Status
Active
Lançada
2018

Fundadores

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

O que Our World in Data faz

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.

Inscrição YC de Our World in Data, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Our World in Data, lote Winter 2019. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

  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.

21 respostas a mais na inscrição completa

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Our World in Data?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Our World in Data (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Our World in Data se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Our World in Data esteve?

Our World in Data fez parte do batch Winter 2019 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Our World in Data?

O Our World in Data foi fundado por Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser.

O que o Our World in Data faz?

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

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Our World in Data, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.

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