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Foster is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: A better way to write. The founders listed are Stew Fortier (Founder), Dan Hunt (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 17, 2021).
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Foster — Experience the joy of writing for its own sake
Hi, we’re Foster. We’re a community that’s cultivated a way of writing together that leads to truer expressions of creativity and self.
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Stew Fortier
Founder
Co-founder & CEO at Type.ai (W23). Previously co-founded Foster (W21). Before that, I served as the CTO of Banzai and an EIR at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Dan Hunt
Founder
Entrepreneur focused on community-powered products.
Believe in a future built by tightly aligned, tech-enabled tribes.
Founded the world's largest cannabis community, MassRoots, and helped change marijuana policies in multiple states and Fortune 500s like Apple. Curated a community of NYC fitness enthusiasts for RCVR, a DTC brand in the athletic recovery space. Now building Compound Writing, a community-powered writing workflow.
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