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Tech Talks: Greatest lessons from Y Combinator's newest group of second time founders
PitchBook sat down with second time founders from Y Combinator’s latest cohorts to discuss the advantages that their prior startup brings to their new company. This conversation took a deep dive into the impact of AI, hiring developers, go-to-market strategy, balancing product versus sales and marketing, and more.
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Key Topics
- How building with AI is providing increased product functionality
- Learnings from previous entrepreneurial endeavors
- The founder experience today vs. in years past
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James Ulan is the director of industry and technology research at PitchBook. Prior to joining PitchBook, he worked as an equity research analyst at Credit Suisse on the number-one-ranked Institutional Investor consumer finance team, where he analyzed consumer lenders, digital banking and fintech.
Ulan holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business, magna cum laude, and attended the University of Maryland College Park, where he majored in Economics and Criminal Justice.
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Sean Safahi is the co-founder and CEO of Abel, a startup building AI tools for attorneys. Before Abel, Sean founded Bold Financial Technologies, a payments startup, which was acquired by Airbnb in 2016. Additionally, he worked on Growth at Netflix and Payments at Expedia.
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Vikram Jayanthi is the co-founder of PromptArmor, which builds security and compliance for LLM applications. Before founding PromptArmor, Vikram co-founded Pundit Analytics, which was later acquired. Vikram most recently worked on engine-security as a software engineer at Roblox, before PromptArmor.
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Yuriy Zaremba is the CEO and co-founder of AiSDR which is transforming sales outreach with the help of AI. Prior to AiSDR Yuriy co-founded and lead AXDRAFT, with his brother Oleg. AXDRAFT is a contract life cycle management platform that helps lawyers and non-legal teams draft error-free legal documents 7x faster. AXDRAFT was acquired by Onit in 2020.
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Timothée and his co-founders are building atopile, an open-source hardware programming language and toolset to design electronic circuit boards with code. Their goal is to bring software development techniques to the field of hardware. Prior to atopile, Timothée and his co-founders were engineers at Tesla and before that, Timothée co-founded and led MotionPilot, a company which built the first motion controller for FPV drones. MotionPilot’s technology was acquired by DJI, a manufacturer of advanced drones.
