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 in the earliest stages – including topics like how to quickly deliver an MVP, how to handle technology choices and technical debt, and how and when to hire a technical team.

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Chapters (powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) –
00:00 – Introduction
00:09 – How you can 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 technology stack that makes sense for your startup
19:43 – What happens in the launch phase?
22:43 – When you launch: the right way to build technology
25:36 – How the role evolved from ideation to hiring
26:51 – Summary
27:59 – Outro

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