When you're a second time founder, you start optimizing for how impressive what you're working on sounds at dinner parties when you go drink people. It's just as hard to talk to your users, but it's 10 times easier to talk to experts. Second time founders can actually take more risk on the ideas that they pick because they don't have other startup friends or they don't care as much.
Step inside the Group Partner Lounge to hear Y Combinator Group Partners Harj Taggar, Michael Seibel and Brad Flora discuss the advantages of being a first-time founder and the instances when it pays to have experience founding a startup in the past.
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