Video · ~35 min
How to Pitch Your Startup
Kevin Hale · Y Combinator Free Beginner
Kevin Hale (YC partner, Wufoo co-founder) walks through how to package your idea so an investor believes it can grow fast, and a big part of that is telling the founder story so 'why you' lands instead of sounding like a boast. It is practical and script-level: how to open, what to lead with, and how to make your unfair edge legible in the first minute. Watch it once before you write a single pitch line.
- A pitch is really a hypothesis about why this company can grow quickly, so your 'why you' has to feed directly into that growth story, not sit as a separate bio slide.
- Investors weigh how well you can sell and tell the story, so evidence you understand your customer beats abstract claims about your background.
- Lead with clarity: make the problem, your insight, and why you are the one to solve it understandable in a sentence or two.
