Back in 2010 and in 2012, YC organized a "Work at a Startup" event, for founders of YC companies and prospective hires to meet each other in person. It got great feedback and we wanted to keep doing it, but we got stretched too thin for a while. This year, a bunch of us revived the project. Our goal is to fundamentally improve the experience both of joining a YC startup and of being an early employee in general. You may have seen some of the recent discussions about this, including a big discussion last week about concrete ways to improve things for early startup employees (see links below). As part of this, we've decided to bring back an expanded version of the original "Work at a Startup" event. That's what we're announcing today. On Saturday July 28, we'll host our third Work at a Startup Expo: https://workatastartup.com/expo . We'll begin with a talk answering the most common questions about working at a startup. Then we'll have a series ...
