France

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 4, 2017 by Ryan Hoover · said 14 times in 11 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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2026 1 mention in 1 episode

How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator Jul 24, 2026 · 1 mention · from 28:12
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2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator Aug 26, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 33:06
The Sales Playbook For Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator Aug 15, 2025 · 1 mention · from 6:43
How To Build A Truly Abundant Future · Y Combinator Apr 4, 2025 · 1 mention · from 14:12
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2019 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator Jun 26, 2019 · 1 mention · from 49:53
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator Feb 27, 2019 · 1 mention · from 9:29
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator Jan 23, 2019 · 1 mention · from 28:22
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2018 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode

Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator Oct 3, 2018 · 3 mentions · from 32:07
David Zeevi on Personalized Nutrition Based on Your Gut Microbiome · Y Combinator Aug 22, 2018 · 1 mention · from 39:54
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator Mar 30, 2018 · 1 mention · from 29:50
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2017 1 mention in 1 episode

Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator Oct 4, 2017 · 1 mention · from 25:23
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Everything said about France, oldest first

Oct 4, 2017 positive

Opinion

Hoover: Paris produces disproportionately design-centric tech products

“I think for whatever reason, Paris is very design centric in general. So you'll see a lot of design related or like beautiful looking products coming from Paris or France in general.”

Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 25:19 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator

Jan 23, 2019 negative

Assertion Supported

US users share vastly more junk news than European democracies

“During the UK elections, and Germany, and France, and Sweden, Mexico, all of those countries have much lower levels of junk news to professionally produced news shares than the US.”

Samantha Bradshaw Jan 23, 2019 ▶ 28:17 Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator

Feb 27, 2019

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Saroya: Stylekick was featured globally on App Store and ranked #1 in France

“Stylekick itself was you know featured in just about every market you know, on the app store, on the front page repeatedly. We ranked number one for style in like France.”

Karn Saroya Feb 27, 2019 ▶ 9:21 Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator

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