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- good luckby mengyuxuan
- >Any advice?
Yeah, don't put YC on a pedestal. Whatever ship the supposed prestige was on sailed a long time ago, then sank.
One would hope that would create a habitable reef, but in practice it's probably closer to an underwater super fund site.
>...and I've also built and scaled consumer mobile apps solo to 20k+ downloads
I highly recommend watching HBO's Silicon Valley.
by rl3 - cold dms and emails are what landed me (senior in hs) YC internship, and honestly just being within the community and showing passion about the product helps drasticallyby pliiight
- Have you tried Work at a Startup?
https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs
You can apply for internship roles there (by configuring it in your profile).
by sarreph