For eight weeks in 2015, Washington University in St. Louis engineering graduates Andrew Hess and Philip Thomas, co-founders of scheduling startup Staffjoy, went through the Y Combinator Fellowship program. Geared towards idea- and prototype-stage companies, the fellowship provides a $12,000 equity-free grant and advice from YC partners, and Staffjoy was one of 33 companies selected from a pool of more than 6,000 applications.
Hess, who majored in systems engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Thomas, who has bachelor’s degrees in systems engineering and in physics in Arts & Sciences, successfully launched Staffjoy during the program and set up shop in San Francisco afterwards.
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