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Tracy Young Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015

Y Combinator · 21.6K views · 2015-02-23 · 26:51

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Tracy Young, a former construction engineer and cofounder of PlanGrid, speaks at the 2015 Y Combinator Female Founders Conference. She talks about building software for construction superintendents and about customer success.

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HN recommends it as a strong founder talk that shows how formidable and practical Young is, with advice delivered through a beaver metaphor.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2022

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ignoramous · 2022-03 · Strong recommendation

Tracy Young advising startup founders to be like beavers (extolling its virtues) is one of the best presentations I've seen: [VIDEO]

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jl · 2018-11 · Strong recommendation

This is a big deal: this is by far the biggest acquisition of a YC startup with a female founder/CEO. If you want to get an idea of how formidable Tracy Young is, watch her talk at the 2015 Female Founders Conference: [VIDEO]

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xkiwi · 2016-12 · Joke / meme

I lookup your list due to curiosity. So far I am on the third one, and I learned few thing from it: [VIDEO] #1 Y Combinator hosted a Female only founder conferences in the year of 2015. Where is the Male only founder conference? #2 She explain why her spirit animal is a beaver in the video 23:13. Later she explained how a small honey beaver can take down the lion king. The method is "run between it's leg, and bite it in its balls."

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