Dalton Caldwell
Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator
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Dalton Caldwell is a Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator who has advised founders across 21 batches and a former founder of imeem, App.net and PicPlz. The one thing most worth learning from him is to stay alive, talk to customers in person, and pivot toward what you already know, because most successful startups nearly died.
A good pivot is like going home. It's warmer, it's closer to something that you're an expert at.
Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (YC)
Dalton Caldwell: the story and the lessons
1Dalton Caldwell's path from founder to Y Combinator
Caldwell has advised founders at scale for more than ten years. He is managing director and group partner at Y Combinator, has worked across 21 YC batches and with more than 20 unicorns.
He worked closely in the early days of Instacart, Retool, Brex, DoorDash, Webflow, Replit, Amplitude, Whatnot and Razorpay.
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Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (YC)
Lessons from advising more than 1,000 startups: keep going, pivot toward what you know, talk to customers in person, and avoid tarpit ideas and over-delegation. The result worth hearing is that the worst-looking companies in one YC group, Brex and Retool, became the biggest wins.
Caldwell has advised founders at scale for more than ten years. He is managing director and group partner at Y Combinator, has worked across 21 YC batches and with more than 20 unicorns.
He worked closely in the early days of Instacart, Retool, Brex, DoorDash, Webflow, Replit, Amplitude, Whatnot and Razorpay.
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