Tracy Young Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015
Y Combinator2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2016–2022
talk · general · evergreen · 2016–2022 on HN
Tracy Young, a former construction engineer and cofounder of PlanGrid, speaks at the 2015 Y Combinator Female Founders Conference. She talks about building software for construction superintendents and about customer success.
HN recommends it as a strong founder talk that shows how formidable and practical Young is, with advice delivered through a beaver metaphor.
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3 comments from Hacker News
Tracy Young advising startup founders to be like beavers (extolling its virtues) is one of the best presentations I've seen: ▶ this video
This is a big deal: this is by far the biggest acquisition of a YC startup with a female founder/CEO. If you want to get an idea of how formidable Tracy Young is, watch her talk at the 2015 Female Founders Conference: ▶ this video
I lookup your list due to curiosity. So far I am on the third one, and I learned few thing from it: ▶ this video #1 Y Combinator hosted a Female only founder conferences in the year of 2015. Where is the Male only founder conference? #2 She explain why her spirit animal is a beaver in the video 23:13. Later she explained how a small honey beaver can take down the lion king. The method is "run between it's leg, and bite it in its balls."