In Pursuit of Superhuman Storytelling

Every great technological shift has created new media. The camera created the motion picture, and Hollywood turned it into a golden era of cinema. The internet gave us YouTube, and made everyone a video publisher. The iPhone gave us TikTok, and the overnight vertical video celebrity.

Now Y/n is creating a new form of entertainment: interactive stories. Y/n allows people to play a character in a book and interact with any story, characters, and universe created by the community.

Y/n’s mission is to build a superhuman A.I. storyteller and distribute it to billions of people. We’re giving the technology to creators, so they can turn their most ingenious ideas into stories others can live in.

To date, people have sent over one billion messages on Y/n. Teenagers and twenty-somethings are attending imaginary schools, befriending fictional people, and living out entire lives in A.I.-generated stories made for them. Soon, billions will play stories too, across every genre, in text, in video, alone, or with their friends. By 2030, playing stories will become the dominant form of entertainment.

Our culture is simple.

Story quality determines Y/n’s success, so we hire people obsessed with making stories great.

We are commercially minded. We want people who use their technical abilities to make numbers go up.

We run as a tiny team making very big bets on model training and network effects. We hire people who think rigorously and own their domain.

We’ve raised $14M from Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator, and Parable Partners, and we’re hiring for several roles. If you want to live in pursuit of superhuman storytelling, join us.

– Gabriel Birnbaum & Eric Meier.