Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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May 22, 2024
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We help founders make something people want.
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How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Why America Stopped Innovating - And How We Can Start Again
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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What Founders Can Do To Improve Their Design Game
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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How to Build the Future: Tony Xu
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Customer Obsession Made Gusto A $9.6 Billion Company
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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The Future Of Design With Figma's Dylan Field
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Building A Supersonic Plane Company From The Ground Up
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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How To Build The AGI Future: Bob McGrew
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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How To Use AI In Your Startup
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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How David Lieb Turned A Failed Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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How To Start A Dev Tools Company with Nicolas Dessaigne | Startup School
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders | The Breakdown
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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How To Build The Future: Sam Altman
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? | Office Hours
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb | Design Review
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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How To Find A Co-Founder with Harj Taggar | Startup School
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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How To Convert Customers With Cold Emails with Aaron Epstein | Startup School
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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How To Improve Cohort Retention with David Lieb | Startup School
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Co-Founder Equity Mistakes to Avoid with Michael Seibel | Startup School
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years | Main Function
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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How To Price For B2B with Tom Blomfield | Startup School
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think | Office Hours
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Enterprise Sales with Pete Koomen | Startup School
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale | Office Hours
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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How to Survive the Crypto Boom & Bust Cycle | Main Function
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Consumer Startup Metrics with Tom Blomfield | Startup School
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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When Should You Trust Your Gut? | Dalton & Michael Podcast
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Building Confidence In Yourself and Your Ideas | Dalton & Michael Podcast
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Stop Innovating (On The Wrong Things) | Dalton & Michael Podcast
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise Venture Capital? | Dalton & Michael Podcast
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills | Dalton & Michael Podcast
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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B2B Startup Metrics with Tom Blomfield | Startup School
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Should You Be Optimistic About The Future of Technology? | Dalton & Michael Podcast
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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AI and the Future of Law: The 10 Year "Overnight" Success Story | Main Function
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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How To NOT Get Screwed As A Software Engineer | Dalton & Michael Podcast
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Should You Quit Your Job At A Unicorn? | Dalton & Michael Podcast
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco?
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Will OpenAI Kill All Startups?
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Setting KPIs and Goals with Divya Bhat | Startup School
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Secrets You Can Learn From Your Customers
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Inside The Most Powerful Startup Community In The World
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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How Startup Fundraising Works with Brad Flora | Startup School
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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How to Build An MVP with Michael Seibel | Startup School
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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How To Earn Customers For Life
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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The REAL Potential of Generative AI
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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The Hard Conversations Founders Don't Want to Have
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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The Best Way To Launch Your Startup with Kat Mañalac | Startup School
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Advantages Of A First-Time Founder
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Keys To Successful Co-Founder Relationships with Cat Li & Divya Bhat | Startup School
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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How To Compete With Amazon and Google
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Investors Said No, Now What?
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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When to Launch Your Startup and When to Wait
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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How to Get Your First Customers with Gustaf Alströmer | Startup School
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Startup Business Models and Pricing with Aaron Epstein | Startup School
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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How to Talk to Users with Gustaf Alströmer | Startup School
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas with Jared Friedman | Startup School
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Should You Start a Startup? with Harj Taggar | Startup School
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Avoid These Tempting Startup Ideas
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The Truth About Y Combinator
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Two Mindsets That Can Kill Your Startup
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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What Basic Game Theory Teaches Us About Startups
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Most Important Lifestyle Habits Of Successful Founders
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Elon Musk & The Midwit Meme
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Why Investors (including YC) Can’t Fix Your Company
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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What Does It REALLY Mean To Do Things That Don't Scale?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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How To Change The World? Get The Small Things Right
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Simple Products That Became Big Companies
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From?
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Successful Founders Are OK With Rejection
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Should You Follow Your Passion?
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Understanding Investor Terms & Incentives
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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YC Founders Made These Fundraising Mistakes
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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YC Founder Firesides: Gusto on building for new verticals
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Co-Founder Mistakes That Kill Companies & How To Avoid Them
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Dealing With Setbacks And The Startup Gut Punch
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Saving Your Startup During an Economic Downturn
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Why You Should Leave Your FAANG Job
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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#157 - Diego Saez Gil
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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#156 - Amber Atherton and Iba Masood
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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#155 - Laks Srini
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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#154 - Matt Cutts
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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#153 - Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-LaCroix
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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#151 - Startup School Week 10 Recap - Ali Rowghani on How to Lead and Kevin Hale and Adora Cheung on Startup School 2019 by the Numbers
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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#150 - Startup School Week 9 Recap - Carolynn Levy on Modern Startup Financing and Jared Friedman’s Advice for Hard-tech and Biotech Founders
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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#149 - Startup School Week 8 Recap - Adora Cheung on Prioritizing Your Time and Kevin Hale on Evaluating Startup Ideas
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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#148 - Startup School Week 7 Recap - Kevin Hale on Conversion Rates and Pricing
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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#147 - Startup School Week 6 Recap - Tim Brady on Culture and Dalton Caldwell on Pivoting
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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#146 - Startup School Week 5 Recap - Kirsty Nathoo and Kevin Hale
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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#145 - Startup School Week 4 Recap - Kat Mañalac and Gustaf Alströmer
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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#144 - Startup School Week 3 Recap - Anu Hariharan and Adora Cheung
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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#143 - Startup School Week 2 Recap: Michael Seibel, Adora Cheung, and Ilya Volodarsky
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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#142 - Startup School Week 1 Recap: Kevin Hale and Eric Migicovsky
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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#141 - Diana Hu
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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#140 - Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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#139 - Jay Reno
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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#138 - Russ Roberts
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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#137 - Startup School Podcast Preview with Kevin Hale
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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#136 - Anu Hariharan on Managing a Board
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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#135 - Camille Fournier
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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#134 - Sarah Nahm and Holly Liu
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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#133 - Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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#132 - Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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#131 - Jeremy Rossmann
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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#130 - Tracy Young and Kat Manalac
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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#129 - Simone Giertz
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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#128 - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale
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May 29, 2019 |
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#127 - Vidit Aatrey and Adora Cheung
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May 22, 2019 |
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#126 - Chris Best and Jonathan Gill
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May 15, 2019 |
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#125 - Brian Halligan and Kevin Hale
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May 08, 2019 |
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#124 - Jarvis Johnson
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May 01, 2019 |
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#123 - Harry Zhang and Kevin Hale
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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#122 - Max Rhodes and Anu Hariharan
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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#120 - Austen Allred
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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#119 - Amy Buechler and Michael Seibel
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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#118 - Marques Brownlee
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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#117 - Craig Cannon and Adora Cheung
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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#116 - Domonique Fines and Cadran Cowansage
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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#115 - Mike Knoop and Kevin Hale
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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#114 - Karn Saroya
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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#113 - Caterina Fake and Kat Manalac
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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#112 - Ryan Hoover and Dalton Caldwell
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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#111 - Jake Klamka and Kevin Hale
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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#110 - Avni Patel Thompson and Kat Manalac
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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#109 - Samantha Bradshaw
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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#108 - Cindy Mi and Qi Lu
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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#107 - Vinod Khosla and Sam Altman
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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#106 - Frank Lantz
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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#105 - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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#104 - Leonard Susskind
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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#103 - Michael Seibel
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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#102 - Andrew Kortina
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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#101 - Brian Donohue
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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#100 - Sam Altman
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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#99 - Laura Deming
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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#98 - Shola Akinlade
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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#97 - David Hua and Vincent Ning
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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#96 - Mathilde Collin
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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#95 - Eli Schwartz
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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#94 - Joan Lasenby
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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#93 - Peter Reinhardt
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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#92 - Ryan Petersen
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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#91 - David Zeevi
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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#90 - Jessica Brillhart
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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#89 - Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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#88 - Office Hours with Michael Seibel
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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#87 - Elad Gil
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Jul 27, 2018 |
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#86 - Jocko Willink and Mike Sarraille
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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#85 - YC Partner AMA at the Female Founders Conference
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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#84 - João Batalha and Luís Batalha
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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#83 - Scott Aaronson
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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#82 - Henrique Dubugras of Brex and Anu Hariharan
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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#81 - Announcing Work at a Startup
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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#80 - Office Hours with Adora Cheung
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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#79 - Liz Wessel
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May 31, 2018 |
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#78 - Simon Benjamin
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May 25, 2018 |
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#77 - John Preskill
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May 16, 2018 |
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#76 - Carola Schönlieb
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May 09, 2018 |
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#75 - Sean Mitchell
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May 04, 2018 |
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#74 - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg
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May 02, 2018 |
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#73 - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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#72 - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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#71 - Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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#70 - CoinList Cofounder Andy Bromberg and Ramon Recuero
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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#69 - Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe and Sam Altman
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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#68 - Cost vs Quality in Edtech - Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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#67 - 3D Home Printing for the Developing World - Alexandria Lafci and Brett Hagler of New Story Charity
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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#66 - Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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#65 - Funding Is an Outcome of Building a Good Business - Porter Braswell of Jopwell
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Mar 21, 2018 |
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#64 - Researching Psilocybin's Effects on Depression - Dr. Rosalind Watts
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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#63 - The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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#62 - Dan Lewis, CEO of Convoy, on the Future of Freight
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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#61 - Sam Altman on Masters of Scale
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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#60 - Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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#59 - Providing Fair Financial Products for the 56% of the US Without Access to Them - Jake Rosenberg of LendUp
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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#58 - It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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#57 - Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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#56 - Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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#55 - Tim Urban of Wait But Why
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Jan 03, 2018 |
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#54 - Growth Office Hours: Round 2
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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#53 - Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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#52 - Making Physical Retail as Easy as Opening an Online Store - Ali Kriegsman and Alana Branston of Bulletin
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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#51 - There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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#50 - Growth Office Hours with Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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#49 - Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough
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Nov 29, 2017 |
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#48 - The Future of Bike Sharing with Ofo Cofounder Yanqi Zhang and Anu Hariharan
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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#47 - Baidu's COO, Qi Lu Discusses AI with Daniel Gross
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Nov 15, 2017 |
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#46 - Tencent's Chief eXploration Officer, David Wallerstein on WeChat, QQ, and Gaming
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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#45 - Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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#44 - Cindy Mi on Building VIPKID, the World's Largest English Learning Platform for Children
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Nov 03, 2017 |
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#43 - Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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#42 - Robotics and 3D Printing with Voodoo Manufacturing
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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#41 - Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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#40 - Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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#39 - Mr. Robot's Technical Producer and Writer - Kor Adana
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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#38 - The More You Communicate with Users, the Higher Chance You'll Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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#37 - Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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#36 - Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers
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Sep 22, 2017 |
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#35 - The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves - Rana Adhikari of LIGO
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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#34 - Elizabeth Iorns on Biotech Companies in YC
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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#33 - The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces
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Sep 08, 2017 |
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#32 - Hosain Rahman on The "Defibrillator Experiences" of Jawbone
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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#31 - Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data – Laura Behrens Wu
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Sep 01, 2017 |
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#30 - Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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#29 - Jack Dorsey On The Books That Helped Him Succeed
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Aug 25, 2017 |
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#28 - Prerequisites for Starting a Company - Phil Libin
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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#27 - The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay
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Aug 18, 2017 |
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#26 - Founders of Science Exchange, Goldbely, and The Flex Company Discuss Fundraising
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Aug 16, 2017 |
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#25 - Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation
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Aug 11, 2017 |
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#24 - Padmasree Warrior on Designing Autonomous Vehicles - With Anu Hariharan at the Female Founders Conference
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Aug 09, 2017 |
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#23 - VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference
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Aug 04, 2017 |
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#22 - Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference
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Aug 02, 2017 |
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#21 - Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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#20 - Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta
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Jul 21, 2017 |
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#19 - Blockchain Investing - Olaf Carlson-Wee and Aaron Harris
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Jul 19, 2017 |
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#18 - Q&A with YC Partners at the Female Founders Conference
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Jul 14, 2017 |
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#17 - Aileen Lee and Kirsty Nathoo at the Female Founders Conference
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Jul 12, 2017 |
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#16 - Mark Zuckerberg on How to Build the Future
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Jul 07, 2017 |
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#15 - IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO - Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell
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Jun 30, 2017 |
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#14 - Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan
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Jun 28, 2017 |
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#13 - Scaling Growth - Gustaf Alstromer, Ed Baker, and Josh Elman
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Jun 23, 2017 |
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#12 - How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? - Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel
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Jun 21, 2017 |
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#11 - At The Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang
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Jun 16, 2017 |
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#10 - Office Hours with Ali Rowghani
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Jun 14, 2017 |
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#9 - Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman - From Startup to Scaleup
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Jun 09, 2017 |
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#8 - Rick and Morty Writer - Ryan Ridley
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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#7 - Jessica Livingston on How to Build the Future
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May 31, 2017 |
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#6 - Office Hours with Kat Manalac
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May 24, 2017 |
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#5 - An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba
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May 15, 2017 |
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#4 - Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
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May 15, 2017 |
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#3 - The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO - Ed McManus
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May 15, 2017 |
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#2 - Network Effects with Anu Hariharan
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May 15, 2017 |
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#1 - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram
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May 15, 2017 |