YC Group Partner Diana Hu was the CTO of her YC startup Escher Reality, which was acquired by Niantic (makers of Pokemon Go). She shares her advice for being a technical founder at the earliest stages – including topics like how to ship an MVP fast, how to deal with technology choices and technical debt, and how and when to hire an engineering team.
Chapters
00:00 – Intro
00:09 – How to Build and Perpetuate as a Technical Founder
01:56 – What Does a Technical Founder Do?
04:38 – How To Build
08:30 – Build an MVP: The Startup Process
11:29 – Principles for Building Your MVP
15:04 – Choose the Tech Stack That Makes Sense for Your Startup
19:43 – What Happens In The Launch Stage?
22:43 – When You Launch: The Right Way to Build Tech
25:36 – How the role evolved from ideating to hiring
26:51 – Summary
27:59 – Outro