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9 statements across 7 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2017 by Josh Elman · said 95 times in 45 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Gustaf Alströmer (10), Mike Mignano (7), Craig Cannon (7), Laura Behrens Wu (6), Emily Weiss (6), Dalton Caldwell (6), Michael Seibel (4), Elad Gil (4)
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup · Y Combinator
- Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
- State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
- How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
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2024 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
- Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator
- Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2022 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2019 21 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator
- Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 23 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator
- Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 21 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator
- Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- Rick and Morty Writer: Ryan Ridley · Y Combinator
- Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
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Everything said about Instagram, oldest first
Jun 23, 2017 bullish
Sep 4, 2017 neutral
Laura Behrens Wu: Amazon is a transactional utility, not an emotional brand
“I think Amazon is great for generic purchases, but It's really, like, you don't see Amazon making funny jokes on Twitter as a corporate account. Like, you don't see anyone tagging Amazon in their Instagram posts. It's just that people in their free time don't …”
Sep 4, 2017 positive
Laura Behrens Wu: Glossier excels by feeling like a friend, not corporate
“I think they're doing a phenomenal job just making sure that their followers are being engaged on the right channels, the channels that they're active on, and that it's Not that corporate. Like it does not, when I look at their site, I don't get a corporate fe…”
Nov 29, 2017 bearish
Sloan predicts Facebook updates and Instagram photos will be gone by 2050
“I would not bet against everything that we're pouring into kind of the vast digital box, you know, like everything, the Facebook updates, the Instagram photos, all of it basically being gone in 2060, 20, 50. Like, I hope that's not the case, and I mean, it see…”
Dec 14, 2018 positive
Mar 18, 2025
Reeves: Gusto rejected 11 VC firms to raise seed solely from angels
“We had, I think, like, over 11 VC firms offer to invest. We actually chose to do the round with no VC firms. It was all angels, so we raised from, you know, twenty-plus CEOs and founders. It was, you know, the CEOs and founders of, you know, PayPal and Stripe …”
Nov 28, 2025 bullish
Mignano: AI Models Will Become New Distribution Engines for Creator Likenesses
“Maybe the model is the distribution then, like we're saying, and maybe similarly how for TikTok,
It became about, obviously, the videos, and we can create a video, but you could also, like, you could let creators pull from the song catalog.
You know, Instagram…”
Nov 28, 2025 bullish
Mar 16, 2026 positive
Emergent Scaled Early Distribution via TikTok and Instagram Influencer Networks
“We built out a large influencer network and that was our, Initial sort of, you know starting point for us. Like we use TikTok, Instagram, and part of this bunch of influencers to really, really spread the word out. And that sort of, you know, kickstarted the w…”