Y Combinator | Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School @ycombinator | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
YC Group Partner Diana Hu was the CTO of her YC startup Escher Reality, which was acquired by Niantic (makers of Pokemon Go). She shares her advice for being a technical founder at the earliest stages - including topics like how to ship an MVP fast, how to deal with technology choices and technical debt, and how and when to hire an engineering team.

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Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Intro
00:09 - How to Build and Perpetuate as a Technical Founder
01:56 - What Does a Technical Founder Do?
04:38 - How To Build
08:30 - Build an MVP: The Startup Process
11:29 - Principles for Building Your MVP
15:04 - Choose the Tech Stack That Makes Sense for Your Startup
19:43 - What Happens In The Launch Stage?
22:43 - When You Launch: The Right Way to Build Tech
25:36 - How the role evolved from ideating to hiring
26:51 - Summary
27:59 - Outro