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Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:09 Alexandr Wang Like, a decade ago, the best AI models could recognize cats in YouTube videos, and now, you know, we're talking to, um, you know, a digital god that can, you know, uh, I mean, we've all seen some of the hacks and some of the, some of the…
- ▶ 31:13 Alexandr Wang When I started working on scale, um, you know, we had cat detectors in YouTube videos, and that felt, you know, it's hard to say, explain the story that that's, like, the most important technology of our time, but it was on just this,…
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:50 Jensen Huang And I was telling you earlier, there, at the time, there was, there was no YouTube, there's, you know, no YC, nobody's teaching you how to start a company, and so I went to the bookstore, and I bought a book, and the book said how to start…
World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:53 Harj Taggar YouTube for documents. 2 times in the scene
Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:22 Francois Chaubard And it's this amazing breakdown that he put on, posted on, uh, YouTube that you can go check out.
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:00 Demis Hassabis And now increasingly every single product at Google has, you know, maps and YouTube and so on has,
The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:50 Mike Mignano How to write content and publish it on the internet or to take a photo and put it in a feed that millions and millions of people are scrolling through or take a video and upload it to YouTube.
- ▶ 23:49 Garry Tan I'm hopeful that ChatGPT comes around and realizes, like, that was one of the most amazing things that TikTok did, and that's what the YouTube algorithm does today.
- ▶ 25:49 Garry Tan When you say organic, like ultimately the most potent form of organic is X feed, YouTube feed, TikTok feed.
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:59 Ankit Gupta Yeah, like you need to watch like a YouTube video for four hours of someone messing around with a profiler to like maybe self-teach it or something, or to actually pair with someone is basically the best you can do.
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:39 Aaron Levie When I want to watch a movie, I got Netflix or YouTube or whatever.
Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:37 Karri Saarinen Like, YouTubers, there's something, there's a, there's a card about YouTube there.
Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:43 Chelsea Finn Alternatively, maybe we look at data from YouTube, which has also a massive data source and many videos of humans doing tasks that can be useful for training robots.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:30 Aravind Srinivas I just watched the Elon Musk videos on YouTube.
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:22 Kirsten Green YouTube didn't, I mean, YouTube was big, but it didn't have that many marketing videos, and there weren't that many places to distribute it because social was still ramping up, and so that was a real novelty, and people were delighted by…
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:15 Andrej Karpathy He makes beautiful animation videos on YouTube.
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:25 Jared Friedman Prompt that is powering this agent, um, and to put it on screen on YouTube for the entire world to see, um, it's like relatively hard to get these prompts for vertical AI agents cause they're kind of like the crown jewels of the IP of…
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:04 Aravind Srinivas So other, other places, YouTube and cloud, but the margins are all coming in search, right? 2 times in the scene
How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:31 David Lieb I remember sitting in my cube at TI, and I read these two twenty-five-year-old kids sold YouTube for a billion dollars, and that was the first moment that it became tangible to me that like, oh, those guys don't look much different than I…
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:14 Sam Altman I heard he was really smart, and then I watched some video of his, and he's also, he's extremely smart, like, true, true, genuine genius and visionary, but also he has this incredible presence, and so I watched this video of his on YouTube…
Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator
Techno Optimism, Explained · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:06 Dalton Caldwell Freaking YouTube itself. 2 times in the scene
B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:55 Tom Blomfield Maybe they've been a product manager at a big tech company, or they've just watched too many YouTube videos, but they want to make every decision in their startup with metrics.
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:24 Brad Flora It's on YouTube.
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:07 Gustaf Alströmer Sometimes it works to send a short video, a YouTube video that you can embed in the email.
The Truth About Y Combinator · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:31 Dalton Caldwell We're the, we're the, we're the higher, we're the YouTubers.
Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:57 unnamed speaker Um, we hired someone from YouTube who worked on scaling out their video infrastructure, and, um, that person, his name is John, was ridiculously helpful in saving us a ton of money.
Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:59 Dalton Caldwell Think about the first five employees of Facebook and the first five employees of Instagram before, when it was a startup, before they got acquired, the first five employees of YouTube, when it was a startup, before it got acquired versus…
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:29 Dalton Caldwell So one of the cool innovations that YouTube, the startup YouTube had before it was acquired by Google was to play video in flash in the browser that required no external dependencies or just play right in the browser. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 Michael Seibel And so, we actually hired one of the network ops guys from YouTube, who had figured out how to kind of scale a lot of YouTube's early, um, 2 times in the scene
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:59 Eric Migicovsky We're going to go into some YouTube questions.
- ▶ 41:42 Eric Migicovsky It's basically a publication text plus YouTube. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:33 Michael Seibel I think it was the YouTube platform risk one.
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:59 Amber Atherton So like the YouTube memo picked that up and, uh, really kind of
- ▶ 46:00 unnamed speaker And try YouTube.
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:00 Craig Cannon I think you see it today with YouTube, right? 4 times in the scene
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:39 unnamed speaker So what do you say about YouTube then? 2 times in the scene
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:01 Craig Cannon Um, and just to clarify for people listening and watching, uh, we always put all this content on YouTube. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:27 Kevin Hale So he, um, did a video on the YouTube about, um, I think pivoting a little bit. 2 times in the scene
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:49 Gustaf Alströmer I would, I, I, I, we have this, uh, YouTube video when I talk about growth in startup school, and there's the first couple of slides that they talk about, so like the evolution of, of Facebook and their growth.
- ▶ 48:08 Gustaf Alströmer Yeah, and I, I, that's actually the, the, the example I give on the Facebook graph on my, on my, um, YouTube video, uh, from startup school.
Simone Giertz on Her Robots and Returning to Work After Brain Surgery · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:13 Craig Cannon Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed that YouTube entrepreneurship would lead you here.
- ▶ 0:53 Craig Cannon Which obviously led you to making videos about yourself on YouTube. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:19 Simone Giertz And that was the first, like, shitty robot project that I published, and it kind of, like, I think within four months after that, I started working full time with my YouTube channel, which is crazy. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:36 Simone Giertz Um, so establishing boundaries really early on, uh, was, was one of those things, like, just to make sure I still enjoyed it, and that was, like, what part of that was never committing to an uploading schedule, which a lot of YouTubers… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:53 Simone Giertz I mean, for, for me, it was very early, like really trying to keep things flexible in terms of what I do on YouTube, but also like, I just would, I just want to make sure that if I wake up in the morning or one day and I'm like, no, I… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:38 Craig Cannon Like, I think a lot of people are just like, ah, I'm going to be a YouTuber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:26 Craig Cannon Um, do you think you like had any big learnings aside from making YouTube videos about it, like on how to better deal?
- ▶ 32:03 Simone Giertz Yeah, gave myself permission, and it's really, it was really scary to step away from something that you know works, and that has, like, proven to be successful to some extent, and that was, like, shitty robots for me, but, um, and trying…
- ▶ 37:21 Simone Giertz And I feel like that is such a, as much as it's like, I mean, I, I run a YouTube channel.
- ▶ 43:57 Craig Cannon During that boredom period, do you allow yourself to get on your phone and like hang out on YouTube and stuff like that? 3 times in the scene
Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:00 Jonathan Gill It's not someone leaving YouTube on and just autoplaying video to video.
- ▶ 13:33 Craig Cannon I'm curious about that hypothesis, because if you look at YouTube and who's actually earning on YouTube a living, there's not that many people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:51 Jonathan Gill So YouTube is absolutely centralized and controlled by, by the big G. 4 times in the scene
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:14 Kevin Hale Yeah, I mean, that was, that was a huge motivator for us to do YouTube versus just a podcast. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:15 Brian Halligan I would be tempted to do something, a video cast, so you're on YouTube once a week, something like that. 2 times in the scene
Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:03 Craig Cannon So, uh, today Jarvis Johnson, who is a software engineer and YouTube creator. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:53 Jarvis Johnson I don't know, like, um, because it had always been, I had been a fan of, like, my YouTube and tech career, like, very intertwined, because I knew about Patreon because I've been following Hank and John Green, uh, who are, you know,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Jarvis Johnson I think that's honestly what I go through a lot now with YouTube is that a lot of the time I'm spending on anything is not necessarily on creating content.
- ▶ 21:30 Jarvis Johnson So, uh, I, I've mentioned before that I'm like a very risk-averse person, so it took me a while to think of doing YouTube stuff full-time as a clean break. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:46 Jarvis Johnson Uh, and so I have like an immense gratitude to him cause I just remember having like 2000 YouTube subscribers and like having a one on one with him just like about YouTube where I was just like, I don't know, like where they all clued in… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:19 Jarvis Johnson Um, I like YouTube comments hurt my feelings sometimes, but, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:21 Craig Cannon Which like for people who don't pay attention to YouTubers, that's nothing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:13 Craig Cannon And it, and it can be deceptive cause you see your thumbnails and you're like, ah, this is just some like YouTube stuff, but it's a little more thoughtful than that.
- ▶ 48:26 Jarvis Johnson I mean, for me the most is that, uh, you know, I've, I've, I've made videos that are called like, this is the worst channel on YouTube where that's like,
- ▶ 53:41 Jarvis Johnson I, it really was just coming from a point of like, I want to make some YouTube videos.
- ▶ 58:25 Craig Cannon What, what is the predictions of both like YouTube creators and then content creation in general in the next handful of years? 10 times in the scene
Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:18 Craig Cannon What would you attribute your success to on YouTube? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:49 Marques Brownlee Maybe I'm cooking, but I just want to like open the YouTube app real quick and search for something like now what?
- ▶ 16:11 Marques Brownlee Well, there's also hope because there are plenty of much older, you know, tech journalists and tech YouTubers who are, who are doing their thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:41 Craig Cannon But like Marques individual YouTube guy, like just to fly to LA and like film on the PCH, like the question is like, how do you do that? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:13 Craig Cannon Which is a nice format for YouTube.
- ▶ 29:07 Craig Cannon I appreciate the modesty, but like, there are, I don't know how many million YouTube channels of people reviewing phones. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:05 Marques Brownlee I wonder if an eight minute video would have been watchable, like knowing, you know, all the other things that go into YouTube and retention and, and how long people watch and the attention span of the internet. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:06 Craig Cannon So, Austin Ryder asks, in the early years of the channel, uh, Marquez took a several month hiatus from YouTube.
- ▶ 46:20 Marques Brownlee It's even shakier on YouTube, especially lately, just sort of because of where we're at, and I get it. 6 times in the scene
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:09 Samantha Bradshaw So not just, um, liking and sharing, but using specific keywords to get content trending, to try to get things at the top of Google's, uh, search, uh, algorithm, trying to get things at the top of YouTube.
- ▶ 9:22 Samantha Bradshaw Uh, we're also seeing, you know, more videos on YouTube and, uh, more
Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies · Y Combinator
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:44 Andrew Kortina And just to this point now where, like, so much rather go, like, explore YouTube than
- ▶ 1:01:39 Andrew Kortina Either the YouTube transcription and clean it up, or it might've been on BAFTA's website somewhere.
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:46 Brian Donohue So like YouTube, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Safari, all these things have like this reading list, save for later, like I found this thing.
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 54:36 Craig Cannon It's this YouTube channel that's just, like, pulling all of these, like, LPs from the sixties and seventies and putting it up.
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:46 Calvin French-Owen Like, students would go to Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, like, in retrospect, all the things that you would assume college students would do if they have a laptop in front of them in a lecture, but, uh, we didn't quite see it that way.
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:58 Patrick Collison Um, but I think that sort of the, the, the most successful larger organizations somehow, uh, do succeed in sort of this, um, uh, iterative, repeated, repeated process of kind of augmentation, uh, you know, Amazon and Google being kind of…
SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:21 Craig Cannon And what about actually, uh, so we, obviously, this is on YouTube, uh, when YouTube asks for keywords, do you recommend people use those? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:27 Eli Schwartz I think YouTube is number two, but Google Images is definitely up there.
PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:48 Kat Manalac So that means anything you make for your blog, YouTube, uh, podcasts, anything that you create and distribute yourself.
- ▶ 4:52 Craig Cannon So it's gonna be like your podcast, YouTube, blog, video, social stuff, whatever.
- ▶ 9:06 Craig Cannon Makeup tutorials do well on YouTube, vlogging, all that kind of stuff.
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:42 Suhail Doshi If in the case of YouTube, let's take YouTube as a good example, right? 3 times in the scene
Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:13 Craig Cannon Now you just go on YouTube and it takes two minutes 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:21 Jessica Brillhart Yeah, no, but I mean, but considering how long it usually takes to make VR, it's insane, and I can show it to anyone on my phone, I don't care if they watch it on YouTube in low res or high res, like it's one of those things that you could…
Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:34 João Batalha Um, you use a piece of content if you're adding on to it or like, right, this is why you can, you can have like a video on YouTube with a snippet from a movie if you're reviewing it.
- ▶ 56:15 unnamed speaker Well, you got to be careful about those YouTube videos then, because if you get discovered on YouTube as an explainer series, good luck. 2 times in the scene
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:20 Liz Wessel Focus on your GitHub if you're an engineer, your YouTube if you are a performer or a public speaker, your Instagram if you're a designer, they show your volunteer, your hobbies, your fun facts, and so it's a little bit more of a holistic…
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 58:39 unnamed speaker And then they call it quantum transport, uh, teleportation on YouTube.
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