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Ben Lang
@benln · @askspoke
Hey Patrick. Big Stripe Atlas fan here.
What kind of things are you most focused in building the Atlas community?
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Patrick McKenzie
@patio11 · I work on Atlas at Stripe
@benln "Whatever our companies need" feels like a cheap and unsatisfying answer to this question, but it is a true answer.
The most recent thing we did was a straight-up target of opportunity: many companies wanted support in applying for YC. We bubblegummed the heck out of it: one Google spreadsheet, an inbox, and an email to all Atlas companies asking them to send us their application if we wanted feedback. One (very long) week later, we have hopefully helped some very, very interesting companies get into YC, learned that Atlas companies broadly perceive fundraising as something extremely relevant to their interests, and learned about some opportunities for making systemic improvements in the entreprenurial community.
(An example: many entrepreneurs have difficulty being precise about what they are building. That is a useful thing to be able to do; it is indispensable for getting investment, successfully inducing people to join you on your wild adventure, and selling your product to customers. We can feed the fact that we know that that is a problem into our guides and other assorted education about running companies.)
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