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Protobase

The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.

Founded2020
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

Protobase was a Chicago startup (YC Winter 2020) building a '10x, next-generation spreadsheet.' Founded by solo founder Ben Vogt, it combined sheets, grids and formulas with better structures like tables, queries, filters, search and sorting. Y Combinator lists the company as Inactive.

02 / FAILURE REASONS

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03 / EVENT HISTORY

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  1. Founded

    Protobase founded by Ben Vogt (YC lists 2019); joined Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch.

  2. YC W20

    Participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch as a solo-founder team of one in Chicago.

  3. Inactive

    Y Combinator lists Protobase's status as Inactive; founder Ben Vogt later moved on to other engineering roles.

04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT

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Overall assessment: Not completed

05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH

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