Y Combinator Founders with LinkedIn, Titles and Bios
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Y Combinator Founders with LinkedIn, Titles and Bios
One row per founder of a Y Combinator company: name, title, bio, LinkedIn and Twitter, with the company beside them. The directory search YC publishes holds no people at all, so this reads the company pages. Filter by batch, industry, region or tag, or name the companies yourself.
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One row per founder of a Y Combinator company. Name, title, bio, LinkedIn, Twitter, and the company beside them. No key and no login.
Why this is its own Actor
The YC directory is an Algolia index and it holds no people. Every field about a founder lives on the company's own page, so the only way to get a founder list is to open the pages. This Actor picks the companies the same way the directory search does, then reads each page once.
One page is one request and yields two or three founders.
Three fields that mislead if you take them at face value
avatarUrl is a signed link that stops working about an hour after the run. It looks like an
ordinary image URL. avatarUrlExpiresAt is the moment it dies, read out of the signature
itself, so you can download the photo during the run or ignore the column.
founderBio is missing for most founders of older batches. On a 47-founder sample of 2013 and
2015 companies, 31 had none. YC writes a missing bio as null on one record and as an empty
string on the next, and both arrive here as empty, so filtering on blank finds all of them.
latestYcCompanyName is the founder's most recent YC company, which is usually but not always
the company on the row. One founder in that same sample was listed on Cleanly with a latest
company of Optery. latestYcCompanyIsThisOne is false for exactly those people, which is how
you find serial founders.
The filter values are words, not slugs
The batch is Winter 2024, not W24. Case does not matter, spelling does, and a value the
directory does not use returns zero companies with no explanation. Every value you pass is
checked against the live list before any search runs, and a wrong one stops the run with the
real spelling and charges you nothing.
What one row is
One founder at one company. A founder of two YC companies has one id and appears once per company, which is correct: the title and the bio are per company.
RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store lists every company read, how many founders it published,
which pages could not be read, and complete with limitedBy.
Billing
Two events: a start fee charged only once founders are actually returned, and a per-founder fee charged after each row is written. A run that returns nothing costs nothing.
