9 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 12, 2018 by Eric Migicovsky · said 70 times in 24 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Vidit Aatrey (24), Craig Cannon (9), Gustaf Alströmer (4), Tom Blomfield (3), Sonal Choksi (3), Eric Migicovsky (3), Aravind Srinivas (3), Aadit Palicha (3)
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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
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2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 37 mentions in 6 episodes 6 per episode
- Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator
- Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- Anne Wojcicki : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
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Everything said about WhatsApp, oldest first
Oct 12, 2018 neutral
Migicovsky: WhatsApp first launched on the FlyerTalk travel forums in 2009
“You know where the WhatsApp guy posted his app first in back in 2009?
[2266] Adora Cheung: No.
[2266] Eric Migicovsky: He posted it on FlyerTalk.
[2268] Eric Migicovsky: Forums, which is, like, a whole bunch of, like, geeky business people who fly a lot.
[22…”
Jan 23, 2019
Disinformation actors target locally dominant platforms like WhatsApp in India
“The people who want to manipulate public opinion, they're gonna go to where the people are, and the platforms that the people are using. So in the US, we tend to see a lot of these campaigns on Twitter and Facebook, because that's the platforms that the majori…”
Jan 23, 2019
Oxford researchers found widespread meme-based disinformation in Brazilian WhatsApp groups
“We looked at WhatsApp in Brazil, for example, and in that study we joined a bunch of different groups Were looking at the kinds of images and the kinds of conversations that were being shared. And there were a lot of memes that were being used to public, to pu…”
May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 bearish
May 22, 2019 neutral
Dec 1, 2022 positive
Apr 18, 2025
Palicha: Zepto began as a WhatsApp grocery delivery group for neighbors
“So we just decided to hack around, work on a project, and it just started off as like a WhatsApp group where we were delivering groceries for our neighbors, because it was a nightmare to get groceries in the first wave of the pandemic.”
Jul 11, 2025 neutral
Srinivas: No AI product has in-app network effects yet
“No AI product has within app network effect. Like it's not like WhatsApp where if you build a WhatsApp rival, Meta has a definitely like a questionable brand, right? Like people don't necessarily trust Meta's products. They think like these are ad products. De…”