Find the company and check the team page; use google to read up on the person. Caveats: sometimes people have the same name and yet they are not the same people, not all founders are always listed on the team page, especially not for companies that have pivoted, not all companies have a team page.
Success rate for this sort of thing is pretty good if you invest some time.
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As what company, what year then check:
https://www.ycdb.co/
Find the company and check the team page; use google to read up on the person. Caveats: sometimes people have the same name and yet they are not the same people, not all founders are always listed on the team page, especially not for companies that have pivoted, not all companies have a team page.
Success rate for this sort of thing is pretty good if you invest some time.
If you email hn@ycombinator.com we might be able to help.
Thanks so much!