{"id":11702,"date":"2018-01-23T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:17:46","slug":"what-they-dont-teach-you-at-yc-as-detailed-as-yc-should-is-sales-in-the-way-justin-kan-and-his-lil-bro-sells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/what-they-dont-teach-you-at-yc-as-detailed-as-yc-should-is-sales-in-the-way-justin-kan-and-his-lil-bro-sells\/","title":{"rendered":"What They Don&#8217;t Teach You at YC as Detailed as YC Should, is Sales in The Way Justin Kan (and his li&#8217;l bro!) Sells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>RainForestQA just did a $25mm round<\/p>\n<p>But the bigger news is that they are doing rounds and rounds of revenue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Extremely proud of this team <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fredsters_s?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@fredsters_s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukd1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ukd1<\/a> &#x1f4c8;&#x1f64c;\u261d\ufe0f The future of software QA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F3bCka0mnL\">https:\/\/t.co\/F3bCka0mnL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Garry Tan (@garrytan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrytan\/status\/955843901037801472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"82tpj\" data-offset-key=\"4223u-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4223u-0-0\">\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"4223u-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image2-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image2-3.jpg\" alt=\"image2-3\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image2-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image2-3-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRainForestQA gotta an Asian dude from Florida St killing it in sales<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>RainForestQA does. This is his second YC startup. His first one fired him to doing sales better than the YC cofounder.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"82tpj\" data-offset-key=\"490rc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"490rc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"490rc-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"82tpj\" data-offset-key=\"5h5hm-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5h5hm-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5h5hm-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Teach You at YC as Detailed as YC Should is Sales in The Way Justin Kan (and his li&#8217;l bro!) Sells.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Extremely proud of this team <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fredsters_s?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@fredsters_s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukd1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ukd1<\/a> &#x1f4c8;&#x1f64c;\u261d\ufe0f The future of software QA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F3bCka0mnL\">https:\/\/t.co\/F3bCka0mnL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Garry Tan (@garrytan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrytan\/status\/955843901037801472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang RainForestQA just did a $25mm round But the bigger news is that they are doing rounds and rounds of revenue. Extremely proud of this team @fredsters_s @ukd1 &#x1f4c8;&#x1f64c;\u261d\ufe0f The future of software QA https:\/\/t.co\/F3bCka0mnL \u2014 Garry Tan (@garrytan) January 23, 2018 RainForestQA gotta an Asian dude from Florida St killing it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}