On August 9, the individuals who beforehand ran startup incubator Y Combinator’s occasions and PR, together with a former Andreessen Horowitz social media supervisor, are holding a small, invitation-only occasion, TechCrunch has realized.
The To Do Checklist Summit will cap off at 80 early-stage founders and can train them easy methods to work with the press and run their very own social media, the organizers promise. The price for the occasion is $600.
YC laid off many of the of us placing on this occasion between a small layoff a few yr in the past and a bigger one in 2023. These layoffs had been shocking on the time as a result of Y Combinator’s occasions have all the time been extremely common and had been a significant power in making San Francisco the hub for the burgeoning AI startup group. (After all, the middle of that universe is YC-affiliated OpenAI, additionally headquartered in San Francisco and run by former YC president Sam Altman.)
The folks placing on this occasion are doing it as a result of they’re appalled at how typically early-stage startups are led to imagine they need to pay tens of hundreds of {dollars} to rent PR and social media businesses, one individual concerned instructed TechCrunch.
Nonetheless, within the wake of startups that routinely go viral, like Cluely, founders really feel pressured to do the identical.
It’s additionally true {that a} single social media put up could make an early-stage startup go viral nowadays. The founders of app vibe coding startup Rork had been nearly broke when a viral tweet led them to boost $2.8 million and nab a spot in a16z’s Speedrun program. Protection tech startup Theseus landed a contract with the U.S. Particular Forces, $4.3 million in funding, and a spot in YC, from a viral X put up.
If the parents behind the brand new occasion may assist YC founders, they imagine they may also help founders who aren’t a part of the famed program — and on a budget with out giving up fairness.
