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66th percentile
YC W14 co-founder and CTO of Ambition now running Opus 10 consultancy
Credibility
Traction · 70th percentile
- Ambition has $20.6M in total funding across its funding rounds.
- Basis raised $3.75 million in seed funding from Bedrock, Wave Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Relationship Matrix
Most Complimentary
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator Winter 2014 alum via Ambition.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past co-founder and CTO of Ambition (ambition.com), a sales management platform.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Ambition had co-founders — Wes Kendall co-founded it with at least one other person.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Current founder of Opus 10, an active freelance software consultancy.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Basis raised $3.75 million in seed funding from Bedrock, Wave Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Ambition has $20.6M in total funding across its funding rounds.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Ambition (ambition.com) is ranked in the Majestic Million at rank 378,645.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)mybasis.com is ranked in the Majestic Million at rank 152,941.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that reconnect you with the YC ecosystem — especially W14 peers who can fast-track co-founder intros, angel checks, or early Opus 10 customers. Small-group technical roundtables where you can share hard-won Django-at-scale lessons would accelerate your positioning as a dev-tools authority and drive inbound consulting pipeline. Events at the intersection of engineering leadership and early-stage company building are your sweet spot, especially where the conversation blurs the line between operator and investor.
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.
- introsA YC W14 founder dinner to re-engage your batch's network for co-founder leads, Opus 10 advisory intros, and warm referrals to angels already comfortable writing checks into YC-pedigreed technical founders
- fundraisingA pre-seed fundraising roundtable with YC-affiliated angels and Lightspeed scouts where you can use the Basis $3.75M raise as a proof point to pressure-test whether Opus 10 is positioned for an institutional seed round
- positioningA Django and Python open-source dev-tools happy hour with maintainers and power users to workshop how to grow the github.com/Opus10 packages into a top-ranked library that drives inbound consulting pipeline
- positioningA Django-at-scale engineering dinner for founders and staff engineers who have built high-traffic Python backends, where you can road-test the Ambition scaling lessons you should be publishing publicly to establish technical authority for Opus 10
- introsA digital health angel investing roundtable with early-stage mental health and behavioral health founders where your Basis co-founder credibility gives you instant standing to start building an advisor and angel track record
- wellbeingA small dinner for founders running a side consultancy or open-source business while holding a full-time engineering leadership role, to share explicit time-boxing and context-switching frameworks that prevent burnout
- tacticalA tactical office hours session with startup attorneys and experienced YC founders on cleaning up cap-table ambiguities when a co-founder re-joins their own company in a senior operator role