Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

what is the main goal of Brickyard?

30 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker explains Brickyard’s core mission: to help post‑Y Combinator (YC) startups escape the “trough of sorrow” that typically follows a YC batch and accelerate them toward Series A funding. The strategy centers on three pillars: enforcing radical focus, immersing founders in a one‑year mandatory residency in Chattanooga alongside similarly ambitious peers, and creating a culture that eschews typical founder “la‑la‑land” distractions (first‑class travel, parties, endless networking). By surrounding founders with high‑performing teams in the same stage, Brickyard aims to drive concrete Series A metrics and ensure that the capital they write checks for is tied to measurable growth milestones.

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Every team comes outta YC, they fall into the trough of sorrow, and no one was focused on getting teams like to, you know, to the Series A. Mm-hmm. And, uh, and so that's what we wanted to do. So our view on, on doing that was the most important things that you can do in the trough are radical focus. Mm-hmm. And be surrounded by super ambitious people that are in your exact same boat. stage. And so to sort of counteract the la-la land, you know, founder culture of, you know, flying first class and going to parties, networking events and this and that, it was like, all right, you've got to move to Chattanooga. If we write your check, you've got to, you have to move here. It's a 1-year minimum. Yeah. But really our teams, the spirit of the deal is you're coming here to get to Series A metrics.