Silicon Valley, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Silicon Valley comes up
Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:57 Des Traynor Or maybe it's like, why you should move to the Valley or, you know, whatever it is.
Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:06 Kat Manalac No, I, I love it because, um, I was talking once to a YC founder and he was saying, you know, if you talk to the vast majority of founders in Silicon Valley, they were influenced by things like Star Trek or Hitchhiker's Guide.
- ▶ 54:39 Robin Sloan That particular shift, that sort of darkening almost of the tint was happening even as I was kind of wrapping up the manuscript for Penumbra, and I remember very vividly the last few passes in the summer of 2012 before it came out that… 3 times in the scene
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:32 Matt Hackett You can try the act, and literally what we would do is, you know, we drove all around the valley for our fundraising, and we would go to a meeting, you know, have this very typical hour meeting with a partner at a VC firm, and then we… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:06 Casey Neistat And he was, he was who we leaned on the most, but we, we had another friend who will remain nameless, who was in the valley at the time, who was in the process of, it was like an 80 or a hundred million dollar raise, which he did execute…
- ▶ 42:47 Matt Hackett Because you're, yeah, if you're in the valley, all, everyone talks to each other. 2 times in the scene
Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 57:09 Michelle Kuo Into the system of Silicon Valley and how those, um, uh, aspirations and, and, uh, even
Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:36 Courtland Allen A good one is, if I look at the IndieHackers traffic stats, something like 60% of the traffic is from not in the United States, let alone in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:05 Craig Cannon Yes, that is a pro tip from Silicon Valley.
Elizabeth Iorns on Biotech Companies in YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:56 Elizabeth Iorns Um, mostly here, so definitely a lot of Silicon Valley funds are doing investments in this space, so even funds that people may not have thought about traditionally, so Coastal Adventures has done a lot, Andreessen Horowitz has done a lot,…
- ▶ 30:29 Craig Cannon So, people in Silicon Valley seem to continually be obsessed with life extension. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Elizabeth Iorns Um, certainly, I mean, Silicon Valley even made fun of it, but the parabiosis workers
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:07 Tikhon Bernstam Um, also just the environment in Cambridge is so much different than the valleys, but back then, like the, the mood was so
- ▶ 22:07 Tikhon Bernstam Um, and like we really were able to get some of like the, just the most, like some of the best investors and some of the most like, like kind of like famous, like Valley type people.
- ▶ 28:01 Tikhon Bernstam It feels like every, every city internationally or a lot of them think like, how do we build the Silicon Valley of like, you know, South America, or how do we build the Silicon Valley of like Peru? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:12 Tikhon Bernstam I know that's an unconventional thing in the Valley, but, uh, Drew was initially a solo founder with Dropbox.
Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:58 Laura Behrens Wu Like, okay, wait, when I go travel, I think leaving the valley, as soon as I leave the valley, I'm able to see or look at things from a different perspective. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:50 Laura Behrens Wu For more people than just people living in the valley.
The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:53 Wade Foster And so the media ends up perpetuating kind of this myth that the great companies are in the Valley.
Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:02 Craig Cannon Um, Adam, uh, you run the AI lab at Baidu in Silicon Valley.
VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:22 Jessica Livingston How many, were any of you in Silicon Valley in 98? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:25 Diane Greene Anyhow, yeah, so, but people, it's about the people, that's what, I mean, certainly in Silicon Valley everybody focuses on the people, and, 2 times in the scene
Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:49 Morgan DeBaun so I can influence other people and make better decisions, um, and technology and entrepreneurship is one of the best ways to do that, and, um, so that kind of started my journey, and then after I graduated from college, moved to Silicon…
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:49 Juan Benet Uh, and, and I think that's one of the things that Silicon Valley has failed to understand. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:23 Juan Benet And, and so that's, that's why you're seeing a wave of things that seem weird to Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 45:53 Juan Benet I think San Francisco and Silicon Valley got interested when the ICO craze happened.
- ▶ 56:26 Juan Benet One was the rise of Silicon Valley and the great invention, or like not invention, but like the great use of stock options, um, or just giving stock to, to everyone in the company. 2 times in the scene
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:03 Craig Cannon So I wanted to break apart a little bit like why you actually thought that and if the, uh, if the opinions of Silicon Valley and the MBA world actually match each other in terms of when you look at the data.
- ▶ 23:43 Michael Seibel Because I think that a lot of people here in the Valley would argue that if you're a business person, you don't have access to a technical network.
- ▶ 25:45 Michael Seibel See, I think I find that tricky, because I think that if you were to grab the average person on the street in the valley, um, and or the average angel investor in the valley, um, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:34 Jeff Bussgang If I'm in, if I'm in the middle of a startup, if I'm trying to transform myself, you know, who knows, but if I'm in the middle of a startup that's going well in New York or in Tel Aviv or in Boston or in Silicon Valley, you know,
At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
Scaling Culture | Jason Kilar, former Hulu CEO · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:57 Jason Kilar So I want to highlight one sentence, which I think is very unpopular in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:35 Jason Kilar Um, so, ah, the takeaway for me, in terms of my observations of culture, and I hope they're helpful for you before we get to Q&A, is to be explicit, and I think a lot of companies in the valley and, and, and founders and CEOs are explicit.
From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:30 Reid Hoffman So with that, um, one of the key things that I think is, uh, interesting is you say, well, why is it that Silicon Valley produces so much of the technological impact in the world? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Reid Hoffman Uh, I recently did, I'm doing this podcast series on Masters of Scale, um, with June Cohen that's coming out, I think it's May third, and it's kind of this heavily edited thing on these different themes of, of kind of what are the… 3 times in the scene
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:03 Craig Cannon He was a technical advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO season three.
- ▶ 2:28 Ed McManus I, I flew in, uh, and, uh, I grabbed lunch with, uh, with the, one of the other technical advisors from the show, um, and he's like, okay, you're all set for your interview, um, so he drew, drove me over to the studio lot, uh, dropped me…
- ▶ 5:40 Ed McManus How well the, the writers sort of understood Silicon Valley and just the material they, they were covering.
- ▶ 11:09 Ed McManus Silicon Valley is the opposite. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:56 Craig Cannon That, like, the startup versus giant company thing is, like, maybe not the most common thing to happen in Silicon Valley?
- ▶ 18:07 Craig Cannon Like it always feels like, not to say that it's like a basic, but it is like popular culture, Silicon Valley, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:00 Ed McManus That's a, that's a, that's a question that I asked the writers, and I started to realize that, like, it was kind of on their radar, but they didn't really understand the significance of Y Combinator in Silicon Valley.
Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:12 Craig Cannon Um, was there anything that you thought was really important in the beginning, or something that's, like, very common in the Valley, uh, that many people think is important, that isn't really important?
Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:59 Sam Altman So, most startups fail, um, and Silicon Valley almost goes too far in how much it loves failure. 4 times in the scene
Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:05 unnamed speaker Um, another tip is to look outside the valley.
- ▶ 26:40 Sam Altman And so the normal stance on this in Silicon Valley is that it takes four years, let's say you split the equity fifty-fifty, it takes four years to earn all of that.
Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:34 Kat Manalac In most places outside Silicon Valley, it's really hard to fundraise. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:45 Craig Cannon If the company person does not have money and is not incorporated yet, how long does it take to get a minimum amount, um, from YC once you arrive in the Valley?
Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:34 Sam Altman And I did this, or other people did this to me when I was sort of 18 or 19 in Silicon Valley and didn't know anyone, and some of those people I have stayed in touch with and are close friends now, 12 years, 13 years later. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:56 Craig Cannon But do you think the weight of being in the Valley in terms of the network is worth the cost? 2 times in the scene