Sam Altman | How to Get Funded by Y Combinator
"28:06Gloria and I'm curious to know earlier you mentioned that you guys are very active in terms of supporting female
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entrepreneurs what suggestions do you have for female entrepreneurs that is
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not data not technical well I won't answer that for female
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entrepreneurs specifically because I'll just give the answer what I what I suggest for founders that are non-technical um and I think the answer
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that I give most is work with a technical founder um don't just pick someone ran them off the street that you
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don't know but you know spend whatever time it takes working another job develop a working relationship with
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someone to found a company with um I think not everyone has any desire to learn to code that's fine people
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shouldn't but it's very hard from the data that we have to have a company with
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no technical founders it's not impossible but it's a significant
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headwind and there are all these reasons we've talked about you can believe them
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or not it's certainly something that in our experience we've seen is true you know companies with no one on the
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technical team have a much harder time getting the product build cheaply a much harder time hiring engineers because
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it's hard to evaluator they want to work with a great technical founder so yeah my advice for anyone male or female is
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to define the technical co-founder see"
