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Tracy Young Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015

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Tracy Young shares her journey of cofounding PlanGrid, building software for the construction industry, and focusing on customer success.

Tracy Young speaks at Y Combinator Female Founders Conference 2015. Tracy is a former construction engineer who cofounded PlanGrid, a company that makes beautiful software for the construction industry. She once worked for one construction superintendent and now she works for thousands of superintendents. Tracy is obsessed with building beautiful, effective things and providing great customer success. Nothing makes her more happy than fairness, hard work and a simple reliable app. She is also a vegetarian who believes her spirit animal is the beaver.

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What people say. Recommended as an inspiring talk by a formidable founder on building a successful startup.

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On “Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity”

This is a big deal: this is by far the biggest acquisition of a YC startup with a female founder/CEO. If you want to get an idea of how formidable Tracy Young is, watch her talk at the 2015 Female Founders Conference: link to this video

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On “Beavers back in London after 400-year absence”

Tracy Young advising startup founders to be like beavers (extolling its virtues) is one of the best presentations I've seen: link to this video

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On “Female founders who've had a great 2016”

I lookup your list due to curiosity. So far I am on the third one, and I learned few thing from it: link to this video #1 Y Combinator hosted a Female only founder conferences in the year of 2015. Where is the Male only founder conference? #2 She explain why her spirit animal is a beaver in the video 23:13. Later she explained how a small honey beaver can take down the lion king. The method is "run between it's leg, and bite it in its balls."