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The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:19 Jared Friedman Like I don't have the Reddit traffic stats, but my guess is like more content was posted on Maltbook in the first two days and was posted on Reddit in like the first two years or something. 2 times in the scene
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:06 Calvin French-Owen Maybe being posted on Reddit a little bit more.
- ▶ 39:36 Calvin French-Owen I mean, it looks like Reddit, but if Reddit were run by agents, I mean, it's interesting to see like Codex's personality shine through when writing code. 2 times in the scene
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:22 Aravind Srinivas If someone's looking for, uh, reviews of some, uh, new gadget, uh, do site colon that corresponding subreddit.
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator
How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:14 Nicolas Dessaigne So it could be Hacker News or some subreddit or some Discord out there that is related to what you're working on.
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:26 David Lieb Um, I was trying to, like, figure out what do I do, and I came upon this Reddit thread, how do I stop Twitter from showing me random bullshit in my feed?
Building Confidence In Yourself and Your Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:35 Dalton Caldwell And this is what's funny for the founders that read a lot of Twitter or Reddit or blogs is they will take something, you know, anonymous aardvark 42 say as like gospel and base their entire life philosophy around it.
AI and the Future of Law: The 10 Year "Overnight" Success Story · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:04 unnamed speaker Users would edit and annotate, then have other users upvote or downvote the annotations, like Wikipedia meets Reddit.
The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:56 Dalton Caldwell Certainly, there's a lot of young people that got super into crypto, there's young people that got really into stock trading recently with WallStreetBets and Reddit, like, you'll see people get really into stuff.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:10 Kat Mignalek So in its earliest days, Reddit was shared among the founders of the first YC batch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:36 Kat Mignalek Hacker News, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:39 Dalton Caldwell Yeah, and they, you know, you brag to everyone, I got this offer, I get this bonus, I got this level, like it's a whole, like, I've seen some of these Reddit threads, man, this stuff's wild.
Startup Business Models and Pricing | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:36 Aaron Epstein There's Reddit.
- ▶ 9:16 Aaron Epstein So people go to hang out on Reddit and form communities there because that's where everybody else is.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:03 Gustaf Alströmer When asking YC founders how they found their early users, some of the most common answers were LinkedIn, Reddit forums, Slack or Discord communities, and sometimes in-person events.
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:30 Michael Seibel And so I think we stole the solution from Reddit.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:59 Eric Migicovsky Reddit, same story in the early days.
- ▶ 24:15 Eric Migicovsky It's taking what you already do on a regular basis, like maybe you go to meetups, maybe you, like, are on Reddit for the subreddit of that, of that city, and, like, think clearly about, like, what are you doing today, and what's the…
- ▶ 28:18 Michael Seibel And a small startup, like, I mean, Reddit did that for a long time. 2 times in the scene
Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:01 Kevin Hale Um, we also had Reddit. 2 times in the scene
Simone Giertz on Her Robots and Returning to Work After Brain Surgery · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:37 Simone Giertz Um, yeah, it started as people calling me the queen of slash r slash shitty robots on Reddit, and then kind of the slash r dropped somewhere along the way.
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:35 Vidit Aatrey So we have a Reddit type community in our app, which is called Misho community.
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:31 Brian Halligan Um, how to set up your, and it wasn't even Twitter and Facebook, it was Dig and Reddit back then.
Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:41 Craig Cannon Because yeah, I mean, I, I follow a couple subreddits on like weird YouTube channels.
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:54 Karn Saroya So, uh, you know, like you, we would acquire via all the channels you expect, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, like what have you.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:15 Ryan Hoover You see a lot of makers and companies launching their new apps or their new products to the world and kind of like Reddit or Hacker News.
- ▶ 2:37 Ryan Hoover That then turned into a website, and we looked a lot, a lot of inspiration, like Reddit, and Hacker News, and other communities, and like, how do you, what systems do we want to take inspiration from?
- ▶ 17:10 Dalton Caldwell Like Reddit, like Dropbox, Airbnb.
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:44 Craig Cannon So it is kind of like the Reddit Pepe sort of stuff we saw in 2016.
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:04 Brian Donohue New York Times or Wall Street Journal or you use, um, some aggregator like Reddit or Hacker News or Twitter. 2 times in the scene
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:52 Paul Buchheit That's the one that had Reddit, 2 times in the scene
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:01 Eric Migicovsky Like sometimes it's as simple as going on like a subreddit. 2 times in the scene
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:40 Craig Cannon Did you see that one on Reddit?
PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:44 Craig Cannon Do you hang out on Reddit, Instagram, whatever?
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:22 Michael Seibel Steve, the CEO of Reddit.
Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:42 Jessica Livingston Um, Reddit was in that first batch, and the founders of Twitch, although they were working on a different idea, and Sam Altman's geolocation startup.
Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:37 Michael Seibel It's a little company called Reddit.
Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:08 Sam Altman You know, this is, like, one of our darlings, but I just, like, it's a, it's an example that sticks with me so much, because they were in my own YC class in 2005, ah, was Reddit. 2 times in the scene
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:22 Sonal Choksi You know, like open source communities, because there is this idea that the most interesting things happen in forums like Reddit and other places, because to us it was true.
Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:19 Ryan Hoover To date, those exist in like on Reddit to some extent and,
Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:14 Courtland Allen You know, you could, people are already talking on Reddit, they're already talking on Hacker News, like, maybe. 2 times in the scene
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:10 Tikhon Bernstam Yeah, I actually found YC cause I was on Reddit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:56 Tikhon Bernstam Well, yeah, so Scribd was actually like one of those pivot companies where like we applied with different ideas and then like much like Reddit was actually a pivot company where like it was actually applied for as something else.
- ▶ 31:48 Tikhon Bernstam So I've been, um, I'm so far invested in like Cruz, which just sold a GM, uh, uh, Gusto lend up, um, checker optimizely, uh, Reddit, um, things like that.
Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:59 Lauren McCarthy Um, and that's not where I'm trying to make money, but one time I made, uh, this app, uh, that a lot of people, it got put, got to the, like the front page of Reddit, and so that all these people started downloading it, and I hadn't really…
Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:38 Murray Shanahan So there was a whole Reddit thread, um, there's a GitHub repository with my piece of code, and there's a, uh, uh, the Reddit thread includes a whole lot of criticism about my coding style. 2 times in the scene
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:24 Ed McManus Like, it, it ended up being a big post on Reddit. 2 times in the scene
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:46 Sam Altman I've heard stories, although it may be apocryphal, that you posted on Reddit to ask people, like, if they wanted something like Dropbox.
- ▶ 10:10 Drew Houston So, we had this idea, um, to build a prototype, the prototype worked well, we made this video, and we put it on Dig and Reddit, and that just blew up, which I can talk about.
- ▶ 28:57 Drew Houston Uh, I had the idea for the Dig and Reddit video based on a book called Guerrilla Marketing, which is like, how do you do marketing and get users when you have no money?
Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:11 Kat Manalac And before this, um, I worked with Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit. 2 times in the scene
Jessica Livingston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:55 Jessica Livingston Reddit was in there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:43 Jessica Livingston You know, Reddit got bought, and that was very exciting news for us, but I think, like, when Dropbox started getting some traction, then we thought, like, whoa, this could be a contender here.
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:16 Nick Winter We weren't architected that way, we, we didn't think we'd get nearly this much traffic, we just posted it to Reddit, that's it. 4 times in the scene