Former Y Combinator, A16Z Experts Hold an Invitation-Only Summit for Founders

On August 9th, those who previously ran the Startup Incubator Y Combinator events and PR are holding a small invitation-only event with former Andreessen Horowitz social media manager.

Hold a list summit It concludes 80 early-stage founders and teaches them how to work with the media to run their own social media, organizers promise. The event costs $600.

YC fired most people The event will take place between a small layoff about a year ago and a 2023 layoff. These layoffs have always been extremely popular with Y Combinator events. It was a great force to make San Francisco a hub. For the fast-growing AI startup community. (Of course, the heart of that universe is Openai, headquartered in San Francisco and affiliated with YC, run by former YC president Sam Altman.)

People attending the event are doing it because they are often keen to believe that early-stage startups have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to hire PR and social media agents.

Still, after that Startups that become viral on a daily basis, like a trial The founders feel they are putting pressure on them to do the same thing.

It is also true that a single social media post can make early-stage startups viral recently. The founder of App Vibe was almost broken when the founder of startup Rork, a startup, raised $2.8 million and began raising NAB. A16Z’s SpeedRun Program Spot. Defense Technology Startup Theseus It landed a contract with the US Special Forces, $4.3 million in funding and a YC spot on the Virus X Post.

If the people behind the new event can help YC founders, they believe they can help founders who are not part of a well-known program.