Ask PG: YC Talent Pool?

[chamza]

Was wondering if you or the folks at YC have thought of this. I know Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners both have talent pools, where they connect interested developers and designers to startups they have funded.

As someone who is transitioning from being a student to wanting to work with a small team full-time, I would personally love to be a part of a talent pool that could connect me to promising startups funded by YC that are in need of my skills.

I also know a lot of the companies funded by YC are also looking to expand their teams and may have difficulty recruiting talent; so I think it’d be something beneficial for both sides. Have you all ever thought of trying something like this?

[pg]

YC itself is effectively that. The good people from the startups that fail get picked up by the others. We also run http://workatastartup.org.

[mitchellwfox]

Have you checked out the "jobs" section here on HN? http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

It's obviously a one-way tool and what you're describing is two-way, but it's a start.

[46Bit]

There is something of a talent pool in recommendations between the YC startups. Get involved with one, and you'll probably be able to get more work out of it if you do a good enough job for them to remember it.