# Successful YC Application video: Flip (YC W2015)

**Author:** None
**Type:** Video
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/IH-successful-yc-application-video-flip-yc-w2015
**YouTube ID:** N5cBGeRMxms

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The video from Flip's YC application.

## Transcript

hey everybody I'm Kamar I'm a former Google and apple engineer um now focused on my own startup called flip and flip is a mobile platform that facilitates the fastest guaranteed resale on specialty items um starting out with limited edition sneakers why sneakers because it's a huge Shadow economy and I know this I'm a sneakerhead uh I've been one for quite a long time uh specifically age n just as long as I've been coding and and I wrote a couple of

bots a few years ago that have now powered this six figure business that I helped co-found called Prestige that's located in Bay Area um what we're trying to facilitate with flip is something that scratches at the human behavior and psychology of wanting to liquidate your assets extremely quickly uh I I know firsthand from this experience I'm trying to figure out how and when to sell my sneakers due to like pay Associated from eBay and Craigslist and other social media like Instagram
