Episodes
13 years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
40 episodes in 2017
🎙Y COMBINATOR
1h 9m Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, Intercom co-founder Des Traynor shares actionable strategies on content marketing, scaling company culture, and product positioning, emphasizing why founders …
18 statements 6 featured 1 assessments
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1h 2m There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator podcast episode, host and guest Kevin Slavin explore the intersection of higher education, game design, and cultural institutions, focusing on how multidisciplinary coll…
18 statements 7 featured 4 assessments 2 contradicted
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57m Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
Author Robin Sloan joins hosts Craig Cannon and Kat Manalac to discuss his novel Sourdough, exploring machine learning applications in writing, digital ephemerality, kitchen automation, and …
19 statements 5 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 0m Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, OpenAI leaders Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman discuss computational hardware scaling, software engineering infrastructure, and machine learning b…
36 statements 8 featured 9 assessments
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1h 2m Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
In a Y Combinator interview, YouTube creator Casey Neistat and tech entrepreneur Matt Hackett discuss the challenges of building media-tech startups, sharing practical insights on product de…
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1h 2m Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator
Artforum editor Michelle Kuo examines the historical impact, artistic innovations, and sociopolitical conflicts of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a pioneering 1960s collaboratio…
26 statements 10 featured 18 assessments
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1h 12m Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator panel, host Craig Cannon speaks with Camille Ricketts (First Round Capital) and Sonal Choksi (a16z) about building high-impact content marketing operations for startups.…
30 statements 9 featured 2 assessments
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59m Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, Mr. Robot writer and co-producer Kor Adana discusses his journey from childhood hacking and corporate cybersecurity to television writing. He details how he i…
17 statements 5 featured 6 assessments
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49m Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover shares essential insights on validating non-technical startup ideas, building early community traction, navigating YC, and sc…
27 statements 8 featured 3 assessments
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52m Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator
In an in-depth interview hosted by Craig, Mr. Money Mustache (Peter Adeney) breaks down his core philosophy on financial independence, first-principles thinking, community building, and life…
25 statements 9 featured 1 assessments
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59m Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator
In this interview hosted by Y Combinator, Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen shares practical insights on bootstrapping software businesses, scaling online communities, optimizing content…
25 statements 9 featured 4 assessments
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29m Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
At the Female Founders Conference, Avni Patel Thompson shares how she transformed the failure of her first startup into the success of Poppy, a tech-enabled childcare service. She outlines h…
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1h 17m The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves - Rana Adhikari of LIGO · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, Caltech physics professor Rana Adhikari explains the precision physics, laser technology, and data science required by LIGO to detect gravitational waves. He …
18 statements 5 featured 12 assessments
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40m Elizabeth Iorns on Biotech Companies in YC · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator podcast interview, cancer biologist and entrepreneur Elizabeth Iorns discusses how YC supports biotech startups, demystifies the transition from academia to entrepreneur…
20 statements 6 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
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48m The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
In this interview, multi-time Y Combinator founder Tikhon Bernstam shares his journey building Scribd and Parse, detailing early fundraising struggles, product validation, and acquisition by…
23 statements 9 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
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48m Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, artist and UCLA professor Lauren McCarthy discusses her interactive performance projects—including 'Social Turkers', 'p5.js', and 'Lauren'—which explore human…
13 statements 4 featured 4 assessments
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43m Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, Shippo co-founder and CEO Laura Behrens Wu discusses modern e-commerce trends, shipping infrastructure challenges, direct-to-consumer branding strategies, and…
22 statements 9 featured 2 assessments
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44m The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator podcast episode, host Craig Cannon interviews Zapier CEO Wade Foster about Zapier's pioneering remote-first culture, capital-efficient growth, and pragmatic startup phil…
20 statements 8 featured 2 assessments
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27m Founders of Science Exchange, Goldbely, and The Flex Company Discuss Fundraising · Y Combinator
In a Y Combinator Female Founders Conference panel hosted by Kat, the founders of Science Exchange, Goldbelly, and The Flex Company share candid strategies and insights on navigating fundrai…
9 statements 6 featured 2 assessments
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30m Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, Adam Coates, Director of Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab, discusses bridging basic deep learning research with scalable commercial products like Deep Speech, Ta…
12 statements 5 featured 1 assessments
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24m VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
At the Y Combinator Female Founders Conference, YC co-founder Jessica Livingston interviews VMware co-founder and former Google Cloud SVP Diane Greene about her entrepreneurial journey, boar…
11 statements 4 featured 4 assessments
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26m Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
At the Y Combinator Female Founders Conference, Blavity founder and CEO Morgan DeBaun speaks with Kat Manalac about building the leading digital media brand for Black millennials. She detail…
14 statements 4 featured 2 assessments
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27m Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
In this keynote conversation from the Y Combinator Female Founders Conference, Glossier founder Emily Weiss discusses how community insights, direct-to-consumer strategy, and consumer empowe…
14 statements 5 featured 1 assessments 1 contradicted
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44m Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator podcast episode, host Craig Cannon interviews Doug Eck, lead research scientist for Google's Project Magenta, about leveraging machine learning to build open-source crea…
22 statements 6 featured 5 assessments
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2h 14m IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator Podcast episode, Protocol Labs founder Juan Benet joins host Craig Cannon and YC Partner Dalton Caldwell to discuss the technical foundations of IPFS and Filecoin, the e…
39 statements 12 featured 3 assessments
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52m Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
In an extended Y Combinator interview, AI researcher and DeepMind senior scientist Murray Shanahan reflects on his career evolution from 1980s symbolic AI to modern deep reinforcement learni…
12 statements 5 featured 2 assessments
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34m Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
In this ScaleUp Offsite growth panel hosted by Greylock Partners and Y Combinator Continuity, growth veterans Ed Baker (formerly Uber and Facebook) and Gustaf Alströmer (formerly Airbnb and …
23 statements 8 featured 1 assessments
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34m How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel and Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Jeff Bussgang debate how effectively business schools prepare MBA students for launching technology startups. The …
14 statements 5 featured 2 assessments
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40m At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, Google's Global Public Policy Lead on AI Tim Hwang explores the intersection of machine learning, public policy, security, commercial deployment, and educatio…
20 statements 6 featured 5 assessments
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52m Rick and Morty Writer: Ryan Ridley · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator podcast interview, Rick and Morty writer Ryan Ridley discusses his career trajectory from stand-up comedy to prime-time animation, explaining the writing room mechanics,…
15 statements 6 featured 5 assessments
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28m Scaling Culture | Jason Kilar, former Hulu CEO · Y Combinator
In this ScaleUp Offsite presentation, former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar shares practical strategies for defining and scaling corporate culture during periods of rapid growth. Drawing from his exec…
12 statements 4 featured 3 assessments
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41m From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator
In this panel discussion from The Scaleup Offsite, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Y Combinator Managing Partner Sam Altman share strategic frameworks for transitioning a company from a…
21 statements 6 featured 2 assessments
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54m An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator interview, OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba discusses the core principles, historical breakthroughs, and practical challenges of deep learning, while sharing OpenAI's …
18 statements 6 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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33m The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
Former Y Combinator-backed startup founder Ed McManus discusses his role as a technical advisor for Season 3 of HBO's Silicon Valley. He explains how he ensured technical authenticity, influ…
14 statements 7 featured 3 assessments
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41m Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator podcast episode, Triplebyte co-founder Ammon Bartram analyzes the systemic flaws in traditional technical hiring, explains Triplebyte's data-driven interview methodology…
31 statements 9 featured 2 assessments 1 contradicted
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48m Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator
In this final lecture of Stanford's 'How to Start a Startup' series, Sam Altman provides essential scaling advice for late-stage founders, covering organizational structure, HR, financial me…
32 statements 8 featured 3 assessments
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46m Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator
In this Stanford University lecture from the 'How to Start a Startup' series, Sam Altman outlines essential strategies for building a successful startup by focusing on co-founder selection, …
30 statements 7 featured 4 assessments
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30m Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston sits down with Y Combinator's Sam Altman to discuss the company's origin story, early skepticism, leadership evolution, and growth strategies.…
13 statements 3 featured 1 assessments
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27m Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
In this Q&A video, Y Combinator Partner Kat Manalac shares actionable advice for early-stage startup founders on applying to YC, resolving co-founder disputes, validating products with custo…
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24m Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator
In this Y Combinator office hours session, President Sam Altman answers audience questions on early B2B sales tactics, founder dynamics, high-impact technology trends, and career strategies …
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