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Y Combinator Founders

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This Y Combinator Founder Actor retrieves data from Y Combinator, allowing to filter, and returns a list of founders as a Dataset.

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Y Combinator Founders Actor

This Y Combinator Founder Actor retrieves data from Y Combinator, allowing to filter, and returns a list of founders as a Dataset.

INPUT

Input of this actor should be JSON containing filter specification. Allowed filters are:

FieldTypeDescriptionAllowed values
limitNumberMaximum amount of companies to returnAny number value
companyNameStringFilter by name. The filter checks if the company name contains the input value.Any string value
nameStringFilter by name. The filter checks if the first or last name contains the input value.Any string value

Example result:

1{
2    "limit": 10,
3    "companyName": "Y Combinator",
4    "name": "Sam"
5}

OUTPUT

Once the actor finishes, it will add each founder to the Dataset.

Example result:

1{
2	"id": 585,
3	"firstName": "Sam",
4	"lastName": "Altman",
5	"fullName": "Sam Altman",
6	"currentCompany": null,
7	"hackerNewsId": "sama",
8	"avatarThumb": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/avatars/53d3aaf413bcd879484bbe18904199aeddfbaa1d.jpg",
9	"currentTitle": null,
10	"companySlug": "loopt",
11	"topCompany": false,
12	"allCompaniesText": "Y Combinator, Loopt",
13	"industries": [
14		"Consumer",
15		"Social"
16	],
17	"parentIndustries": [
18		"Consumer"
19	],
20	"subIndustries": [
21		"Consumer -> Social"
22	],
23	"currentRegion": "Unspecified",
24	"titles": [],
25	"batches": [
26		"S05"
27	],
28	"tags": [
29		"ycdc_public"
30	]
31}