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Founder Mode: Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator
Paul Graham talks about how the concept of founder mode arose from Brian Chesky's famous talk in 2024, what it means, and the latest things he's observed in the startup world.
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel Part 4 (Bonus)
In part 4 of our series with legendary investor Ron Conway, we get into the story of Napster. Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker in 1999 and was the first app to let people access m…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel (Part 3)
In Part 3 of our conversation with Ron Conway, he takes us behind the scenes at early Google. Ron was involved with Google almost from the start; he and Ram Shriram arranged their Series A round. So …
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Drew Houston, Founder & CEO, Dropbox
In today's episode we talk with Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox. We've known Drew for a long time (YC funded Dropbox in 2007) and he's extremely candid about the many challenges he faced, an…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
Today we catch up with Sam Altman, Founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam was in Y Combinator's first batch in 2005 and later returned as YC's president from 2014 to 2019, so he's one of the people in Silico…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Eric Migicovsky, Founder, Pebble & Beeper
In today's episode Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble and Beeper, shares the journey of building one of the first smartwatches. The Pebble watch made history as Kickstarter’s most-funded project …
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
Alexandr Wang, Founder & CEO of Scale
In today's episode we go down into the engine room of the AI Revolution with Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang. Since 2016 Scale has been supplying training data to most of the top AI models. In fact th…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Harj Taggar, Partner, Y Combinator
Today we catch up with Harj Taggar, who knows as much about startups as anyone of his generation. YC funded two of his startups, Auctomatic in 2007 and Triplebyte in 2015. In between them he was the …
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Gusto Co-Founders: Josh Reeves, Edward Kim & Tomer London
In today’s episode, we chat with all three of the Gusto founders: Josh Reeves, Eddie Kim, and Tomer London. Gusto is a payroll and employee benefits company that YC funded in 2012. The striking thing…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our conversation with legendary investor Ron Conway, we chat about how he made one of the most prescient decisions in the history of startup investing when he decided in the early 1990s …
Published on 9 months ago