Weya was a 2015 company at YC that helps company hire diverse companies. The CTO taught himself how to program and freelance for a couple of years before he started Weya. He chose the Yango and Python, although a lot of other peers were telling him to go unused Ruby and Rails. Use hard data as a tech founder to make sure you have set up a dashboard with analytics on your main KPI.
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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