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It’s been a bonkers week in the world with markets gyrating, companies fretting, investors tweeting and founders re-cutting their 2020 forecasts. But for one collection of startups, the past few days weren’t about work crises or the latest Slack share price. Instead, for Y Combinator’s Winter batch, it was Demo Day week.
TechCrunch has
covered Y Combinator companies since time immemorial
. And we’ve been present throughout a number of format changes over the years. We’ve been around for things like the old single-day events in the South Bay computer history museum, and we’ve been around for the SF era. Hell we were there for the two-stage concept.
But this year’s Demo Day brought with it something altogether new: No in-person pitches and demos. Yep, in
response to COVID-19,
Y Combinator made its demo day virtual
, even scooting up its presentations by a full week. Obviously we tuned in en masse, writing a host of posts about the presenting companies (read them here
, here
, and here
). We also caught up with CEO of Y Combinator, Michael Seibel, to here his take on what’s ahead for the accelerator
.
Given the scale of change, however, we weren’t content with just those entries. So, we gathered the TechCrunch crew, hopped on a Zoom, invited in our friends
until our Zoom account maxed out
(we didn’t know that that was a thing; more capacity coming) to chat over observations and the most interesting startups. We didn’t even miss the usual slew of Y Combinator live tweets — for the most part.
Hit the jump and we’ve got the recording for you.
