I'm a YC Winter 2011 startup looking for a(nother) technical co-founder

I'm a YC Winter 2011 batch startup. I have a single founder. He's called pclark.

But he's technical and a pretty nice guy so I don't feel like him flying solo will spook awesome people too much. He's spent the past 2.5 years on a previous startup that sadly ran out of capital and has closed down (after various pivots and other fancy verbs.)

pclark has a computer science degree but doesn't think of himself of a developer as much as a generalist. He loves talking and selling. Building stuff. He's kind of "the other half" to the guy that builds a product and then wonders how to get users; except pclark can help you build it and especially loves shooting shit over IDE vs text editor over tea (or starcraft.)

Startups win by a) never giving up and b) having brilliant contrarian people. We want someone that is the software hacker to pclarks' business hacking.

I'm a startup. I haven't launched. Hell, I don't even have a name. So I guess we're looking for a founder that likes helping name what they've built as well as building it.

You should know how to build websites quickly. Your #1 skill should be building stuff. Any technology, pclark is a comp sci and fast learner - as long as it isn't something lame like haskell - seriously, rails, python, whatever you use. You have the skill set - and passion - to be CTO as we scale.

I want to be licked. This is a product that needs to be lick-able, pclark will hire a designer, but you have to care about details.

I'm helping companies connect with brilliant people. Job boards are dinosaurs. It probably isn't what you think, but it's pretty awesome. Happy to talk about it via email.

I should warn you that as of today i have no serious comp sci problems to solve. You should be flexible in that you want to run a company; rather than want to build a specific product.

I'm going to be huge. I want to be one of those companies that returns the entire Sequoia fund when I IPO. I don't believe people should be embarrassed for aiming at the stars, having an awesome vision that impacts millions of people. Selling your company for $50M is cool, but you know whats cooler? A billio-- never mind. This is a company that wants to scale with venture capital financing in the future.

I want to be profitable within 3 months. 2 months really. I think we'll manage that with a lot of hard work, a lot of learning, and a lot of fun.

So here's the deal: email pclark [peterclark@me.com] with:

* what you've built in your own time [and launched]

* the longest time you were hyper focussed on something

[development, startup, hobby, video game, degree, etc]

* what you do when you're not working on a friday evening

* what kind of animal you are

* why you're great

join pclark. move to mountain view. be funded by yc. be an equal equity founder. learn. have a riot for the next 5 years as we crush it. technologic.

Happy to provide references from YC alumni, friends, investors, family about what pclark is like. He's a nice enough guy, elaborate sense of humour, but serious business when it calls.