Its been a bonkers week in the world, with markets gyrating, companies fretting, investors tweeting and founders re-cutting their 2020 forecasts.
But for one collection of startups, the past few days werent about work crises or the latest Slack share price.
Instead, for Y Combinators Winter batch, it was Demo Day week.
A Technology News Room has covered Y Combinator companies since time immemorial.
And weve been present throughout a number of format changes over the years.
Weve been around for things like the old single-day events in the South Bay computer history museum, and weve been around for the SF era.
Hell, we were there for the two-stage concept.But this years Demo Day brought with it something altogether new: No in-person pitches and demos.
Yep, in response to COVID-19, Y Combinator made its demo day virtual, even scooting up its presentations by a full week.
Obviously we tuned in en masse, writing a host of posts about the presenting companies (read them here, here, here and here).
We also caught up with CEO of Y Combinator, Michael Seibel, to here his take on whats ahead for the accelerator.Given the scale of change, however, we werent content with just those entries.
So, we gathered the A Technology News Room crew, hopped on a Zoom, invited in our friends until our Zoom account maxed out (we didnt know that that was a thing; more capacity coming) to chat over observations and the most interesting startups.
We didnt even miss the usual slew of Y Combinator live tweets for the most part.Hit the jump and weve got the recording for you.
And see which companies the A Technology News Room staff liked the most.