Ryan Petersen

I forgot the timeline of the application, but about six months before.

So we had, but we didn't like, we had,

Maybe one customer.

We really didn't have any customers, but we had a V1 of the software app, had the license, like had a bit of a strategy for what we're going to go do.

It may have changed.

This was already 10 years ago.

They do a Tuesday dinner.

PG used to cook it, I think.

It was really bad food.

You were the last batch where he was the... Yeah, I'm really lucky that not only was the last batch, but he announced it mid-batch, so he didn't take it for granted that you were getting this time with Paul.

But for me, it was amazing because I'm not from... I hadn't been living in the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

I didn't have connections.

And the Evernote CEO, Phil Libman, he was hilarious.

Brian Chesky.

Yeah, kind of like somewhat eminent founders and investors.

But they just come and give a talk for a couple hours, do Q&A.

So nothing amazing, but...

The real benefit of YC, I think, is the friends that I made.

Like, as an outsider, fair to call myself that back then, like, I didn't have a lot of entrepreneur friends.

They were trying to find them online and stuff.