MightyQuiz
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
MightyQuiz was a San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Winter 2008 batch that built a collection of user-generated quiz questions which could be answered and rated on-site or through a distributable widget. The company was founded by Altay Guvench, Olgun Guvench and Ben Silbermann - who went on to co-found Pinterest in 2009 (his history lists 'Mighty Quiz' as a 2009-2010 chapter between Audiobeta and Pinterest). With a two-person team, the company never raised outside funding beyond YC. Y Combinator lists it as inactive, and the YC company database marks it dead. No dated shutdown announcement was found.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
MightyQuiz was founded in Y Combinator's Winter 2008 batch, building user-generated quizzes with a distributable widget.
- Status
Y Combinator lists the company as inactive and the YC database marks it dead; co-founder Ben Silbermann went on to co-found Pinterest in 2009. No dated shutdown announcement was found.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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