Y Combinator Podcast

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Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale54:10
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale
5 years ago

https://StartupSchool.org. Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC. Before working at YC he cofounded Wufoo. https://twitter.com/ilikevests Kevin’s on the podcast toda...

Harry Zhang with Kevin Hale on Building Lob to Automate the Offline World40:37
Harry Zhang with Kevin Hale on Building Lob to Automate the Offline World
6 years ago

Harry Zhang is the cofounder of Lob. Lob makes it possible for enterprises to programmatically send physical mail. They were in the Summer 2013 batch of YC. ...

Max Rhodes of Faire with Anu Hariharan on Scaling and Fundraising47:33
Max Rhodes of Faire with Anu Hariharan on Scaling and Fundraising
6 years ago

Max Rhodes is the cofounder and CEO of Faire. Faire helps retailers find and buy unique wholesale merchandise for their stores. They were in the Winter 2017 ...

Google Photos Product Lead and Bump Cofounder David Lieb with Gustaf Alströmer
Google Photos Product Lead and Bump Cofounder David Lieb with Gustaf Alströmer
6 years ago

David Lieb is the Product Lead for Google Photos. Prior to working on Google Photos, David was the cofounder and CEO of Bump, which was in the Summer 2009 ba...

A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School
6 years ago

Austen Allred is the CEO and cofounder of Lambda School. https://twitter.com/Austen https://lambdaschool.com/ Lambda School provides a CS education that's fr...

Amy Buechler and Michael Seibel on Founder Coaching and Having Hard Conversations
Amy Buechler and Michael Seibel on Founder Coaching and Having Hard Conversations
6 years ago

Amy Buechler is an executive coach for startup founders. https://www.foundercoach.io/ https://twitter.com/amybue Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of Y...

Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators52:06
Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators
6 years ago

Marques Brownlee is a YouTuber. He has over 8 million subscribers to his channel MKBHD where he reviews electronics, drives electric vehicles, and interviews...

Craig Cannon on Podcasting with Adora Cheung01:07:20
Craig Cannon on Podcasting with Adora Cheung
6 years ago

Craig Cannon is the Director of Marketing at Y Combinator. He usually hosts the YC podcast but today is the guest on this episode about podcasting. https://t...

YC's Director of Events Domonique Fines with Elpha CEO Cadran Cowansage21:22
YC's Director of Events Domonique Fines with Elpha CEO Cadran Cowansage
6 years ago

Domonique Fines is the Director of Events at YC. https://twitter.com/domoniquefines Cadran Cowansage is the cofounder and CEO of Elpha. Elpha is a private on...

Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale01:03:28
Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale
6 years ago

Mike Knoop is cofounder and Chief Product Officer at Zapier, which was in the YC Summer 2012 batch. Zapier moves information between your web apps automatica...

Caterina Fake on Her New Podcast, Should This Exist? With Kat Manalac57:08
Caterina Fake on Her New Podcast, Should This Exist? With Kat Manalac
6 years ago

Caterina Fake hosts the podcast Should This Exist? which is about how technology is impacting our humanity. It launches today on iTunes. She also cofounded F...

Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell50:29
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell
6 years ago

Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt which was in the Summer 2014 YC batch and was acquired by AngelList. He also invests in startups through his Weeke...

What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac
What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac
6 years ago

Avni Patel Thompson founded Poppy, which helped parents book the best caregivers. They went through the YC Winter 2016 batch and recently shut down. Avni ask...

Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw33:47
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw
6 years ago

Samantha Bradshaw is a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project and a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. She’s been tracking the ...

Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies
Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies
6 years ago

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. https://t...

Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips
Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips
6 years ago

Frank Lantz is a game designer and Director of the NYU Game Center. He cofounded Area/Code Games and most recently released a game called Universal Paperclip...

Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco55:09
Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco
6 years ago

Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis are the founders of AptDeco, where you can buy and sell used furniture. They were in the YC Winter 2014 batch and you can find ...

Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics
Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics
6 years ago

Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and he’s regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. https://en.wikipedia....

Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money? by Michael Seibel08:36
Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money? by Michael Seibel
6 years ago

Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the winter 2012 batch. ...

Why Should I Start a Startup? by Michael Seibel14:16
Why Should I Start a Startup? by Michael Seibel
6 years ago

Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the winter 2012 batch. ...