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66th percentile
58th percentile
YC W20 co-founder at Welcome with a prior Yahoo acquisition under his belt
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current founder and President at Welcome, a YC-backed virtual events company.
- Welcome is a Y Combinator Winter 2020 alum.
- Welcome has co-founders, including Charles McMillan and Manav Malhotra.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Welcome is a Y Combinator Winter 2020 alum.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Past founder of Bignoggins Productions, a bootstrapped mobile sports app company acquired by Yahoo.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Identified Hacker News account @bignoggins with 1,396 karma.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Active on Hacker News with 1,396 karma.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and President at Welcome, a YC-backed virtual events company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Top HN post 'iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer' received 292 points.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Welcome has co-founders, including Charles McMillan and Manav Malhotra.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Bignoggins Productions was acquired by Yahoo; acquisition price was not publicly disclosed.
- 35%Probability of being accurate (35%)Current company Welcome is profitable — bootstrapped Bignoggins Productions was described as 'highly profitable' and Welcome is a current active company.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, having invested in YC batchmate Blue Onion as a seed investor.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Has made at least 2 known angel investments, including Blue Onion and Payflow (YC S21).
What you likely need
You're a proven builder with a real exit and an active YC W20 company, so the events that move the needle for you are the ones that accelerate Welcome's Series A pipeline and sharpen your public founder narrative. Dinners and roundtables that put you in the room with institutional B2B SaaS investors and YC alumni enterprise buyers will compound fastest right now. Layering in a structured angel syndicate presence through the right co-investor gatherings will help you formalize the investing identity you've already started building.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA YC W20 founder dinner for B2B SaaS companies actively running or preparing a Series A, to swap investor signal and get warm intros to institutional leads who already trust the W20 batch
- positioningA roundtable dinner for founders who have had bootstrapped-to-acquisition exits (à la Bignoggins → Yahoo) to pressure-test public post-mortems and turn those stories into credibility-building media moments
- introsA YC alumni happy hour connecting W20 founders with YC-network enterprise buyers and procurement leads, specifically to generate warm peer referrals for virtual event and async collaboration platforms like Welcome
- tacticalA dinner for founders who have hit the HN front page (Show HN or launches with 200+ points) to workshop each other's next product launch posts and maximize top-of-funnel conversion from the HN audience
- introsA dinner for YC founders who have made 2–5 angel checks (like Blue Onion and Payflow) and are ready to formalize a syndicate or AngelList presence, to share deal flow and build a co-investor network from the YC alumni base
- hiringA hiring roundtable for active YC W20 founders using YC Work at a Startup to recruit engineers and marketers, to share candidate pipeline and coordinate on pitching mission-driven talent to early-stage B2B companies
- fundraisingAn office hours session pairing YC W20 B2B SaaS founders with institutional Series A investors who have a track record of backing bootstrapped-exit founders, to stress-test Welcome's fundraising narrative and get direct feedback on deal terms
- positioningA small dinner for YC founders with notable acquisition stories considering going public with previously undisclosed deal details, to workshop how to frame the narrative for maximum media coverage and founder credibility signal