Reddit, every mention

59 scenes · ← back to Reddit

tap a year for its mentions
00135251020132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions
051020132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodes it came up in
002541020132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions per episode

every year anyone Craig Cannon 7Michael Seibel 5Jessica Livingston 5Tikhon Bernstam 4Nick Winter 4Eric Migicovsky 4Dalton Caldwell 4Sam Altman 3Ryan Hoover 3Kat Mignalek 3

Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Reddit comes up

loading…

The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator Feb 21, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 6, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:55 Garry Tan I mean, there are lots of things from that era that did seem to work, like, I mean, I think Reddit was then, or Digg, or these other things.

How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator Nov 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Nov 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Feb 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Nov 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Apr 14, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Feb 9, 2023 · 3 mentions

The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley · Y Combinator Feb 5, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 15, 2022 · 2 mentions

How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Feb 16, 2022 · 1 mention

YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator Jan 24, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 25, 2019 · 2 mentions

Simone Giertz on Her Robots and Returning to Work After Brain Surgery · Y Combinator Jun 5, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 May 22, 2019 · 1 mention

HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator May 8, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 21, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Feb 27, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Feb 15, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 23, 2019 · 1 mention

Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator Nov 14, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Oct 24, 2018 · 2 mentions

A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:50 Elad Gil Like, I think, uh, Paul Graham helped actually with some of the very early ideas for Reddit and things like that.

A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator Oct 12, 2018 · 2 mentions

Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator Oct 3, 2018 · 1 mention

PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator Sep 19, 2018 · 1 mention

Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 · 1 mention

Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator Jul 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 7, 2018 · 1 mention

Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Oct 13, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 11, 2017 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 36:54 Craig Cannon That, um, there's a very active subreddit about. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:34 Kor Adana We'll go on the subreddit and we'll drop little hints, but not often.
  • ▶ 46:36 Kor Adana I'm watching Twitter, I'm watching our sub, and I'm like, alright, what are they gonna catch?

Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator Oct 4, 2017 · 1 mention

Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator Sep 25, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Sep 8, 2017 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Sep 4, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jun 28, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 17, 2017 · 2 mentions

Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 15, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Aug 30, 2016 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Oct 26, 2013 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.