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#92 - Ryan Petersen
30 augustus 2018 · 59 min
Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport. Lees meer
Flexport is a global freight forwarder powered by software and analytics. They are making international trade easier for over 10,000 companies in 70 countries. They were part of the YC Winter 2014 batch.
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Topics
0:23 - What is a freight forwarder?
3:08 - Selling electric scooters on eBay 15 years ago
5:53 - Ryan’s business school experience
10:23 - Amazon competing with their vendors
13:23 - Matt Susk asks - What were the most important takeaways from Columbia Business School? Would you encourage entrepreneurs to pursue a MBA?
17:03 - Tyler Hogge asks - How did you get your first three clients at Flexport?
20:03 - Being a solo founder
23:08 - Varun Khurana asks - What's your strategy for rapidly hiring the best talent in so many different global hubs?
25:53 - Challenges of scaling Flexport
27:38 - Some of Ryan’s favorite books
29:43 - Scaling culture
34:23 - Jassim Ali asks - How has the Trump policy on foreign trade affected your business so far?
39:23 - PowerDecal asks - How do you poach clients from legacy providers?
46:23 - Automation in freight forwarding
49:23 - Jason Yannos asks - If you weren't operating Flexport and had to source a new idea to work on, where would you start?
53:23 - Derisking product ideas
56:53 - Biggest lessons learned at Flexport
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#91 - David Zeevi
22 augustus 2018 · 57 min
David Zeevi is a James S. McDonnell independent fellow at the Rockefeller University Center for Studies in Physics and Biology. He focuses on developing computational methods for studying microbial ecology in the human gut and in the marine environment, and its contribution to human and environmental health. Lees meer
He was one of the authors on the paper Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
Apply for $120K in funding from YC.
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Topics
01:15 - Why did David start working on personalized nutrition?
4:45 - How did the measure the effects of food in their study?
11:55 - How was the study standardized across people?
15:55 - How they measured an individual’s gut microbiome.
17:30 - What is the gut microbiome?
22:05 - Is there an ideal gut microbiome?
23:20 - How do you manipulate your gut microbiome?
24:50 - Fecal transplants.
26:55 - Elizabeth Iorns asks - Does post prandial glucose response regulation track with weight regulation? I.e. can they use their test to determine what individual people should eat or not eat to lose weight?
28:35 - Has this research been turned into a product?
29:35 - Who else worked on this research?
30:35 - How was their predictive algorithm made?
35:15 - Did they end up with any dietary suggestions?
36:15 - David’s bread study.
38:55 - Has David changed his own diet?
39:25 - Why fat was vilified.
43:15 - David’s ocean microbiome and other research.
51:05 - Traveling and your microbiome.
56:35 - Trying this out yourself.
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#90 - Jessica Brillhart
16 augustus 2018 · 58 min
Jessica Brillhart is the founder of Vrai Pictures. They’re an independent immersive content studio. Lees meer
Before founding Vrai, Jessica was the Principal Filmmaker for VR at Google.
The YC Podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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Questions
00:23 - Starting VRAI
10:23 - Story in film vs. VR
12:38 - Gaming
19:53 - Conditions at Omaha - The Weather Channel in VR
22:38 - Jessica's upcoming projects
27:48 - Andrew Peterman asks - How long until we'll be able to create 3D 360° video from cell phone hardware+amazing software?
30:13 - Matt asks - Where do you see VR in 10 years?
30:28 - Michael Hodapp asks - Does VR still have long term mass adoption potential, or will the market shift to AR?
32:23 - Will people be in VR for a significant percentage of their time in the future?
40:58 - Virginia Pigato asks - How can a traditional storyteller adapt to vr?
50:13 - Can Olcer asks - What key but non-obvious thing is missing for VR to become mainstream?
52:08 - Matt MacVey asks - What are some of the most exciting or scariest parts of social VR and what is the storytelling potential of social VR?
55:38 - Tony Cassara asks - What kind of dog do you have?
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#89 - Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School
7 augustus 2018 · 26 min
Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung are both partners at YC. Lees meer
This episode is about Startup School. It’s a free, online course we’re offering that starts on August 28th.
We’re also offering equity-free grants of $10,000 to 100 companies that participate in the course.
Anyone can sign up for the course at StartupSchool.org.
Read the transcript here.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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Topics
0:40 - What is Startup School?
3:40 - Who are the speakers this year?
5:00 - What are the different paths in Startup School?
7:00 - Success stories from last year’s Startup School.
8:55 - Why offer $10,000 grants?
10:00 - What deals are offered to the startups in Startup School?
11:00 - When does the course start?
12:45 - What are the requirements to complete the course?
15:15 - What are the topics that will be covered?
18:00 - What happens during office hours sessions?
22:30 - Who else is working on this course at YC?
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#88 - Office Hours with Michael Seibel
3 augustus 2018 · 52 min
Michael Seibel is a Partner and the CEO of YC. Lees meer
He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the Winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the Winter 2012 batch.
For this episode we took questions from the internet. If you have questions for a future office hours episode, just tweet them our way.
Read the transcript here.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
We're accepting applications from startups for the Winter 2019 funding cycle. Apply here.
Questions
00:25 - Why is YC worth 7% of your company?
6:25 - Generating leverage when fundraising
12:07 - Youssef asks - How did you validate your product market fit?
15:00 - LC Carrier asks - How does YC feel about companies who don't want to raise VC after the program?
17:05 - Edmilson Rodrigues asks - Do companies need to be incorporated already to participate in YC?
18:50 - Alex Rodriguez asks - What do you look for in startups that haven't had good growth but continue to push through (e.g. AirBnB) that makes you accept them?
26:50 - Fedor Paretsky asks - Do you have techniques you encourage to make pitches sound more exciting?
35:05 - David Chen asks - How to find mentors and advisors?
39:25 - building EatNeat asks - What if anything are you specifically looking for in a startup that wants to be a part of the Startup School 2018?
40:00 - Ryan Carl Mercer asks - What's your preferred way organizing your time?
41:05 - John Rigler asks - Can intrapreneurship be effective? I recently returned to IBM, have a patent, and yet have only vague ideas about how to signal and organize other like-minded folks. Could this path sabotage my dreams?
41:55 - Horacio Chávez asks - How would you approach an investor who says "I won't invest unless you have a patent"?
42:35 - Yahya Elamrani asks - Why does it feel like entrepreneurs aren’t marriage material? Should an entrepreneur look for an entrepreneurial spouse?
44:15 - Yahya Elamrani asks - How intense do you really have to be to found a startup?
48:50 - Is there…
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#87 - Elad Gil
27 juli 2018 · 43 min
Elad Gil is an entrepreneur, operator, and investor. He cofounded Color Genomics and Mixer Labs. Worked at Google and Twitter. And has invested in companies including Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe. Lees meer
He just released the High Growth Handbook, which is a guide to scaling startups published by Stripe Press.
It contains tactical advice on key issues for post product-market fit companies such as the role of the CEO, hiring executives, late stage fundraising, M&A, and other topics. It also includes interviews with people in tech, including Sam Altman, President of YC Group.
You can find the High Growth Handbook on Amazon.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
We're accepting applications from startups for the Winter 2019 funding cycle. Apply here.
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Topics
01:04 - Why should an entrepreneur read the High Growth Handbook?
5:35 - On Marc Andreessen's comment, "The companies that charge more tend to grow faster."
6:50 - Myths about startups
7:50 - Leon Coe asks - What types of businesses do you avoid investing in?
9:20 - Things to just say 'no' to
12:40 - Companies that may be too early
14:52 - On Naval Ravikant's comment, "The most successful class of people in silicon valley on a consistent basis are either the venture capitalists, or people who are very good at identifying companies that have just hit product/market fit. They have the background, expertise, and references that those companies really want to help them scale."
17:41 - On Claire Hughes Johnson's "Guide to Working with Claire"
19:40 - Masud Hossain asks - How did most of the companies you interviewed get their first 10 customers?
20:55 - Masud Hossain asks - Is content really king?
22:50 - Narayan Mallapur asks - Where do founders make the most mistakes? Is it on hiring? What steps should they take to avoid these pitfalls
24:55 - Brianne Kimmel asks - What are some lessons learned in highly regulated sectors? When should you hire a General Counsel? How do you prioritize public policy a…
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#86 - Jocko Willink and Mike Sarraille
20 juli 2018 · 1 uur 25 min
Jocko Willink and Mike Sarraille served together as Navy SEALs and now work together at Echelon Front, a company Jocko cofounded. Lees meer
We met up to talk about a new initiative they’ve set up called Overwatch. Overwatch is a talent acquisition firm that matches employers with veterans from special operations forces and combat aviation. You can learn more about Overwatch at EFOverwatch.com.
They’re also hosting an event called the Muster in San Francisco on October 17th and 18th. You can sign up at ExtremeOwnership.com.
If you’d like to hear more from Mike and Jocko, check out Jocko Podcast Episode 134.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
We're accepting applications from startups for the Winter 2019 funding cycle. Apply here.
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Topics
01:04 - Intros
5:07 - Mike and Jocko on how they transitioned out
9:37 - How the military prepares people for the private sector
13:47 - What is Overwatch?
23:32 - Preconceptions about veterans
28:24 - Advice for companies looking to hire veterans
31:03 - Jocko's next book, The Dichotomy of Leadership
33:58 - Mike and Jocko's working relationship
45:20 - How to set up your team so everyone can contribute
55:02 - What Mike and Jocko are trying to improve about themselves
58:45 - Alex Badalyan asks - What are some military tactics startups could adopt to increase team effectiveness and throughput?
1:00:47 - Allen asks - From your experience as a SEAL and in the business world, do two or more co-founders/leaders have a higher success rate? What are your thoughts on a solo leader/founder with a strong team and culture?
1:06:56 - Armando Neves asks - I liked Jocko's episode on strategy and the way of the Samurai (The Book of Five Rings), how much of the warrior mindset is he implementing on a day to day basis?
1:11:17 - Ryan Carl Mercer asks - Favorite MRE and thank you for your service sir.
1:14:59 - Spencer Clark asks - Is culture more decided by micro or macro policies & interactions?
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#85 - YC Partner AMA at the Female Founders Conference
11 juli 2018 · 25 min
Recorded live at our Female Founders Conference in New York, an AMA with Kat Manalac, Kirsty Nathoo, Adora Cheung, Holly Liu, Jessica Livingston, and Carolynn Levy. Lees meer
This panel was hosted by Sharon Pope, Head of Marketing Programs at YC.
We’re also posting the other talks from the Female Founders Conference today. You can see all of them and read the transcripts at blog.ycombinator.com
If you’d like to learn more about the Female Founders Conference, head over to femalefoundersconference.org
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#84 - João Batalha and Luís Batalha
6 juli 2018 · 1 uur 14 min
João Batalha and Luís Batalha are cofounders of Fermat’s Library. Lees meer
Fermat’s Library is a platform for annotating papers. Each week they send out a paper annotated by their community. Some recent papers were Birds and Frogs by Freeman Dyson and Von Neumann's First Computer Program by Donald Knuth.
They’ve also built a Chrome Extension call Librarian for the arXiv which allows you to get direct links to references, do BibTeX extraction and make comments on papers.
You can find them at FermatsLibrary.com.
Read the transcript on our blog.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#83 - Scott Aaronson
29 juni 2018 · 1 uur 15 min
Scott Aaronson is the David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, and director of its Quantum Information Center. Before teaching at UT, he taught Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. His research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers, and computational complexity theory more generally. Lees meer
If you’ve listened to our other episodes about quantum computers and are curious to learn more, check out Scott’s book Quantum Computing Since Democritus.
And if you want to read Scott’s blog you can find that at scottaaronson.com/blog/.
Read the transcript on our blog.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#82 - Henrique Dubugras of Brex and Anu Hariharan
27 juni 2018 · 43 min
Henrique Dubugras is the cofounder of Brex, which provides corporate cards for startups. Lees meer
Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC.
Brex went through YC in the Winter 2017 batch and just closed their Series B, which was led by YC Continuity.
In addition to discussing how the Brex team built out their service, Anu and Henrique also cover the specifics of what it takes to build a fintech startup in 2018. And Henrique shares advice for young founders, as he started his first company at 16.
Read the transcript on our blog.
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#81 - Announcing Work at a Startup
22 juni 2018 · 26 min
Jared Friedman is a partner at YC and before that cofounded Scribd (YC S06). Lees meer
Matt Long a software engineer at YC and before that cofounded Crocodoc (YC W10).
Today we’re talking about a project Jared, Matt, and several other people at YC have been working on. It’s called Work at a Startup and it’s like a common application for engineers to apply to many YC companies simultaneously.
We’re also hosting a Work at a Startup Expo on July 28th in Mountain View where you’ll be able to meet 35 rapidly growing YC companies. You can learn more and apply to attend at workatastartup.com/expo.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#80 - Office Hours with Adora Cheung
13 juni 2018 · 1 uur 2 min
Adora Cheung is a partner at YC and she also cofounded Homejoy, which went through YC in the Summer 2010 batch. Lees meer
For this episode we took questions from the internet. If you have questions for a future office hours episode, just tweet them our way.
Questions
0:41 - topherPedersen asks - How many users did you have when you applied to YC? Also, how much revenue had you generated?
2:55 - Hatlii asks - How do you keep going if you can’t raise any money?
4:54 - Alejandro Ruperti asks - When/how do you decide to walk away from something you started?
10:41 - Chris Melnick-MacDonald asks - What advice and lessons did you learn in entering the #Canadian market?
13:16 - Yahya Elamrani asks - Do I have to work on culture in the very early stage?
15:39 - Adam Sanders asks - What was the best decision you made for Homejoy?
16:53 - Ujjawal Chauhan asks - Would love to know what’s the one thing she’d do differently in hindsight if she were to start over again?
20:35 - Nikita Butakov asks - What are some unique data science / machine learning challenges faced by Homejoy?
22:07 - Alejandro Ruperti asks - From @tferriss : how has a failure or apparent failure set you up for a later success?
32:37 - Siamak Freydoonnejad asks - What are the best practices when doing a cold reach out to an investor?
33:14 - 😎rliesaurus @ ✈️ 🇪🇺asks - Is Uber for X still a thing people would invest in, in the US?
36:21 - Fedor Paretsky asks - How have YC's views on cryptocurrency/blockchain-related startups changed since Coinbase?
42:56 - Manav asks - What type of companies is YC seeing more of this time around?
46:45 - Yahya Elamrani - What are the best marketing strategies for year one for a b2c startup?
53:55 - Yahya Elamrani asks - What would you say to a founder from a third world country where there is a big lack in tech talents (and you can't compete with big corps due to lack of resources) in term of hiring?
55:50 - Aspiring Angel asks - What’s the best way for investors interes…
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#79 - Liz Wessel
31 mei 2018 · 48 min
Liz Wessel is the cofounder and CEO of WayUp. WayUp is a job and internship platform for college students and recent graduates. They were part of the Winter 2015 YC batch. Lees meer
Read the transcript here.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#78 - Simon Benjamin
25 mei 2018 · 1 uur 19 min
Simon Benjamin is a Professor of Quantum Technologies at Oxford. He is also the Principle Investigator for Oxford’s project on Quantum Optimisation and Machine Learning. Lees meer
This episode is more technical than last week’s episode with John Preskill. We start by covering some fundamentals then go into different approaches for constructing and scaling a quantum computer.
Read the transcript here.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#77 - John Preskill
16 mei 2018 · 1 uur 34 min
John Preskill is a theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. Lees meer
He once won a bet with Steven Hawking, which as he writes made him “briefly almost famous.” John and Kip Thorne bet that singularities could exist outside of black holes and after six years Hawking conceded that they were possible in very special, “nongeneric” conditions.
In this episode we cover what John’s been focusing on for years: quantum information, quantum computing, and quantum error correction.
Read the transcript here.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#76 - Carola Schönlieb
9 mei 2018 · 42 min
Carola Schönlieb is an applied mathematician at the University of Cambridge. Lees meer
She’s also a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and the head of the Image Analysis group at Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
In this episode we cover mathematical approaches to image processing.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#75 - Sean Mitchell
4 mei 2018 · 1 uur 3 min
Sean Mitchell is the cofounder and CEO of Rezi. REZI helps landlords find high quality, long-term tenants in 48 hours. They were part of the Winter 2017 batch. Lees meer
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#74 - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg
2 mei 2018 · 50 min
Linda Xie is the cofounder of Scalar Capital, a cryptoasset fund. Before that she was a Product Manager at Coinbase (YC S12). Lees meer
Avichal Garg is a Managing Partner at Electric Capital, a value fund for digital assets. He’s also an Expert at YC. Prior to that he was the Director of Product Management at Facebook.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#73 - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu
27 april 2018 · 56 min
Patrick Moberg is the cofounder of Playdots, which is a mobile game studio in New York. They make Dots, Two Dots, and Dots and Co. Lees meer
Holly Liu is is a Visiting Partner at YC. Before that she cofounded the gaming company Kabam.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#72 - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang
25 april 2018 · 46 min
Miles Brundage is an AI Policy Research Fellow with the Strategic AI Research Center at the Future of Humanity Institute. He is also a PhD candidate in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at Arizona State University. Lees meer
Miles recently co-authored The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation.
Tim Hwang is the Director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative. He is also a Visiting Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow at the Knight-Stanford Project on Democracy and the Internet. This is Tim's second time on the podcast; he was also on episode 11.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#71 - Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture
20 april 2018 · 45 min
Claire McDonnell is cofounder and COO of True Link Financial (YC S13). True Link is a financial services firm that offers money management, investment, and insurance products, primarily for retirees. Lees meer
Jennifer Kim is currently advising startups. Prior to that she was the Head of Employee Experience and Development at Lever. Lever makes recruiting software and they were part of the Summer 2012 batch.
Kat Manalac is a partner here at YC.
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#70 - CoinList Cofounder Andy Bromberg and Ramon Recuero
18 april 2018 · 54 min
Andy Bromberg is the cofounder and CEO of CoinList. Coinlist provides financial infrastructure for token creators and investors. Lees meer
Ramon Recuero is an engineer at YC. He's the author of the Decentralized Future Series, which you can read here.
If you'd like to listen to more podcasts about crypto, here are episodes with Juan Benet (IPFS) and Dalton Caldwell (YC) and Olaf Carlson-Wee (Polychain Capital) and Aaron Harris (YC).
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#69 - Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe and Sam Altman
13 april 2018 · 29 min
Anne Wojcicki is the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe, which provides direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Lees meer
Sam Altman is the president of YC Group. He interviewed Anne for a series called How To Build The Future, which you can check out on our YouTube channel.
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#68 - Cost vs Quality in Edtech - Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston
6 april 2018 · 55 min
Keith Schacht is the cofounder of Mystery Science, which makes lessons that inspire kids to love science. They were part of the Summer 2017 YC batch. Lees meer
Avichal Garg is an Expert at YC and prior to that he was the Director of Product Management at Facebook.
Geoff Ralston is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Imagine K12, an edtech accelerator that’s now makes up YC’s edtech vertical.
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#67 - 3D Home Printing for the Developing World - Alexandria Lafci and Brett Hagler of New Story Charity
4 april 2018 · 1 uur 3 min
Alexandria Lafci and Brett Hagler are cofounders of New Story Charity. Lees meer
New Story Charity builds homes and communities in the developing world. They were part of the Summer 2015 YC batch.
They just 3d printed their first home in Austin, Texas. You can check it out at 3DHome.org.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#66 - Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar
30 maart 2018 · 54 min
Vivek Ravisankar is the CEO and cofounder of HackerRank, which was in the Summer 2011 batch. Lees meer
They surveyed 40,000 developers on things including their favorite frameworks, what they want in a job, and how they learned to code. You can read the report here.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#65 - Funding Is an Outcome of Building a Good Business - Porter Braswell of Jopwell
21 maart 2018 · 50 min
Porter Braswell is the CEO and cofounder of Jopwell (YC S15). Lees meer
Jopwell is a career advancement platform for Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#64 - Researching Psilocybin's Effects on Depression - Dr. Rosalind Watts
15 maart 2018 · 54 min
Dr. Rosalind Watts is a clinical psychologist at the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London. Lees meer
The Psychedelic Research Group focuses on two main areas: first, the action of psychedelic drugs in the brain and second, their clinical utility, e.g. as aides to psychotherapy, with a particular focus on depression.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#63 - The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy
2 maart 2018 · 48 min
Avni Patel Thompson is the founder and CEO of Poppy (YC W16). Poppy lets parents book the best caregivers with just a text. Lees meer
We recorded this episode at our Female Founders Conference in Seattle. We’re also hosting female founder events in New York and SF this year. You can sign up to our newsletter to get updates about those events.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#62 - Dan Lewis, CEO of Convoy, on the Future of Freight
28 februari 2018 · 52 min
Dan Lewis is the CEO and Cofounder of Convoy. Lees meer
Convoy matches shippers with freight carriers, which helps the trucking industry run more efficiently because currently, over 40% of the trucks on the road are empty.
Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC Continuity.
Read the transcript here.
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#61 - Sam Altman on Masters of Scale
22 februari 2018 · 58 min
Reid Hoffman interviews Sam Altman on this uncut interview from the Masters of Scale podcast.
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#60 - Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston
7 februari 2018 · 39 min
Geoff Ralston is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Imagine K12. Lees meer
This episode covers Startup Investor School. Startup Investor School is a free, 4-day course designed to educate early stage investors interested in investing in startups. You can sign up at investor.startupschool.org.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#59 - Providing Fair Financial Products for the 56% of the US Without Access to Them - Jake Rosenberg of LendUp
31 januari 2018 · 34 min
Jake Rosenberg is the cofounder and CTO of LendUp (W12). They provide access to quality credit cards and loans without hidden fees or debt traps. Their customers are the 56% of Americans that have what is described as a “subprime” credit score, meaning they can’t be approved for credit by most banks. Lees meer
Ali Rowghani is the CEO of YC Continuity.
Read the transcript on our blog.
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#58 - It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo
24 januari 2018 · 1 uur
Sam Chaudhary is the cofounder and CEO of ClassDojo. They've raised $30M and have 30 employees. Lees meer
Karen Lien is an Edtech Principal here at YC.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#57 - Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
17 januari 2018 · 52 min
Alex Blumberg is the cofounder of Gimlet Media. Gimlet makes several podcasts you’ve probably heard of–StartUp, The Pitch, and Reply All are a few. Lees meer
Before Gimlet Alex worked on This American Life and Planet Money.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#56 - Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting
5 januari 2018 · 58 min
Leah Culver is cofounder and CTO of Breaker, which is a social podcast listening and discovery app. They went through YC in the Winter 2017 batch. Leah’s also an author of both the OAuth and oEmbed API specifications. Lees meer
Tom Sparks is an engineer on the YC Software team. He also cofounded Cryptoseal which went through YC in the Summer 2011 batch and was acquired by CloudFlare in 2014.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#55 - Tim Urban of Wait But Why
3 januari 2018 · 55 min
Tim Urban cofounded the blog Wait But Why with Andrew Finn in 2013. Lees meer
His posts about Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, and the Fermi Paradox have been read millions of times.
We discussed Tim's research strategy, the purpose of Wait But Why, and his thoughts on technologies including cryptocurrencies, A.I., and AR/VR.
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#54 - Growth Office Hours: Round 2
15 december 2017 · 1 uur
Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer are partners at YC. Lees meer
This episode is a follow-up to Anu's Growth Guide and the first Growth Office Hours.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#53 - Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom
13 december 2017 · 1 uur 10 min
Des Traynor is the cofounder of Intercom. Lees meer
Here's his talk Product Strategy Means Saying No and the blog post.
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#52 - Making Physical Retail as Easy as Opening an Online Store - Ali Kriegsman and Alana Branston of Bulletin
8 december 2017 · 43 min
Ali Kriegsman and Alana Branston are the founders of Bulletin. Lees meer
Bulletin is a platform that allows brands to share the cost of a physical store.
They currently have two locations, one in SoHo and one in Williamsburg and there are more to come.
Ali and Alana went through YC Fellowship and then the winter 2017 batch.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#51 - There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed
6 december 2017 · 1 uur 3 min
Kevin Slavin is the Chief Science and Technology Officer of The Shed, which is an art center in New York that’s opening in 2019. Lees meer
Before The Shed, Kevin founded the Playful Systems group at MIT's Media Lab.
He also gave a TED talk in 2011 called How Algorithms Shape Our World.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#50 - Growth Office Hours with Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer
1 december 2017 · 33 min
Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer are Partners at YC. Lees meer
This episode is a follow-up to Anu's Growth Guide.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#49 - Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough
29 november 2017 · 57 min
Robin Sloan is a writer and media inventor based in Oakland. Lees meer
He just released his second novel, Sourdough.
Kat Manalac is a Partner at YC.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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#48 - The Future of Bike Sharing with Ofo Cofounder Yanqi Zhang and Anu Hariharan
17 november 2017 · 36 min
Yanqi Zhang is a cofounder and COO of Ofo. Lees meer
Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC.
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#47 - Baidu's COO, Qi Lu Discusses AI with Daniel Gross
15 november 2017 · 1 uur 2 min
Qi Lu is the COO of Baidu. Lees meer
Daniel Gross is a Partner at YC.
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#46 - Tencent's Chief eXploration Officer, David Wallerstein on WeChat, QQ, and Gaming
10 november 2017 · 59 min
David Wallerstein is Tencent's Chief eXploration Officer. Lees meer
Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC.
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#45 - Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman
8 november 2017 · 1 uur 1 min
Greg Brockman is the CTO and cofounder of OpenAI. Lees meer
Szymon Sidor is a Research Scientist at OpenAI.
Sam Altman is the President of Y Combinator and Co-Chairman of OpenAI.
Watch their bot compete at The International.
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#44 - Cindy Mi on Building VIPKID, the World's Largest English Learning Platform for Children
3 november 2017 · 33 min
Cindy Mi is the founder and CEO of VIPKID. VIPKID is a 1-on-1 teaching platform where children in China learn english from North American teachers. Lees meer
Anu Hariharan is a Partner here at YC.
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#43 - Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness
1 november 2017 · 1 uur 3 min
Matt Hackett and Casey Neistat are the cofounders of Beme, which was acquired by CNN last year. Lees meer
You might already know Casey from his YouTube channel which now has over 8M subscribers.
And before Beme, Matt was a Hacker-in-Residence betaworks and the VP of Engineering at Tumblr.