Miles Brundage is an AI Policy Research Fellow with the Strategic AI Research Center at the Future of Humanity Institute . He is also a PhD candidate in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at Arizona State University. Miles recently co-authored The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation . Tim Hwang is the Director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative . He is also a Visiting Associate at the Oxford Internet Institut...
Apr 25, 2018•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Claire McDonnell is cofounder and COO of True Link Financial (YC S13). True Link is a financial services firm that offers money management, investment, and insurance products, primarily for retirees. Jennifer Kim is currently advising startups. Prior to that she was the Head of Employee Experience and Development at Lever . Lever makes recruiting software and they were part of the Summer 2012 batch. Kat Manalac is a partner here at YC....
Apr 20, 2018•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andy Bromberg is the cofounder and CEO of CoinList . Coinlist provides financial infrastructure for token creators and investors. Ramon Recuero is an engineer at YC. He's the author of the Decentralized Future Series, which you can read here . If you'd like to listen to more podcasts about crypto, here are episodes with Juan Benet (IPFS) and Dalton Caldwell (YC) and Olaf Carlson-Wee (Polychain Capital) and Aaron Harris (YC) . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Apr 18, 2018•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anne Wojcicki is the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe , which provides direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Sam Altman is the president of YC Group. He interviewed Anne for a series called How To Build The Future, which you can check out on our YouTube channel .
Apr 13, 2018•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Keith Schacht is the cofounder of Mystery Science , which makes lessons that inspire kids to love science. They were part of the Summer 2017 YC batch. Avichal Garg is an Expert at YC and prior to that he was the Director of Product Management at Facebook. Geoff Ralston is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Imagine K12 , an edtech accelerator that’s now makes up YC’s edtech vertical....
Apr 06, 2018•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alexandria Lafci and Brett Hagler are cofounders of New Story Charity . New Story Charity builds homes and communities in the developing world. They were part of the Summer 2015 YC batch. They just 3d printed their first home in Austin, Texas. You can check it out at 3DHome.org . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Apr 04, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Vivek Ravisankar is the CEO and cofounder of HackerRank , which was in the Summer 2011 batch. They surveyed 40,000 developers on things including their favorite frameworks, what they want in a job, and how they learned to code. You can read the report here . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon .
Mar 30, 2018•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Porter Braswell is the CEO and cofounder of Jopwell (YC S15). Jopwell is a career advancement platform for Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon .
Mar 21, 2018•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Rosalind Watts is a clinical psychologist at the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London. The Psychedelic Research Group focuses on two main areas: first, the action of psychedelic drugs in the brain and second, their clinical utility, e.g. as aides to psychotherapy, with a particular focus on depression. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Mar 15, 2018•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Avni Patel Thompson is the founder and CEO of Poppy (YC W16). Poppy lets parents book the best caregivers with just a text. We recorded this episode at our Female Founders Conference in Seattle. We’re also hosting female founder events in New York and SF this year. You can sign up to our newsletter to get updates about those events. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Mar 02, 2018•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Lewis is the CEO and Cofounder of Convoy . Convoy matches shippers with freight carriers, which helps the trucking industry run more efficiently because currently, over 40% of the trucks on the road are empty. Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC Continuity. Read the transcript here ....
Feb 28, 2018•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Reid Hoffman interviews Sam Altman on this uncut interview from the Masters of Scale podcast.
Feb 22, 2018•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Geoff Ralston is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Imagine K12 . This episode covers Startup Investor School . Startup Investor School is a free, 4-day course designed to educate early stage investors interested in investing in startups. You can sign up at investor.startupschool.org . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Feb 07, 2018•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jake Rosenberg is the cofounder and CTO of LendUp (W12). They provide access to quality credit cards and loans without hidden fees or debt traps. Their customers are the 56% of Americans that have what is described as a “subprime” credit score, meaning they can’t be approved for credit by most banks. Ali Rowghani is the CEO of YC Continuity . Read the transcript on our blog....
Jan 31, 2018•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sam Chaudhary is the cofounder and CEO of ClassDojo . They've raised $30M and have 30 employees. Karen Lien is an Edtech Principal here at YC. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon .
Jan 24, 2018•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Blumberg is the cofounder of Gimlet Media . Gimlet makes several podcasts you’ve probably heard of– StartUp , The Pitch , and Reply All are a few. Before Gimlet Alex worked on This American Life and Planet Money . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Jan 17, 2018•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Leah Culver is cofounder and CTO of Breaker , which is a social podcast listening and discovery app. They went through YC in the Winter 2017 batch. Leah’s also an author of both the OAuth and oEmbed API specifications. Tom Sparks is an engineer on the YC Software team. He also cofounded Cryptoseal which went through YC in the Summer 2011 batch and was acquired by CloudFlare in 2014. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Jan 05, 2018•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Urban cofounded the blog Wait But Why with Andrew Finn in 2013. His posts about Artificial Intelligence , Elon Musk , and the Fermi Paradox have been read millions of times. We discussed Tim's research strategy, the purpose of Wait But Why, and his thoughts on technologies including cryptocurrencies, A.I., and AR/VR....
Jan 03, 2018•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer are partners at YC. This episode is a follow-up to Anu's Growth Guide and the first Growth Office Hours . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Dec 15, 2017•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Des Traynor is the cofounder of Intercom . Here's his talk Product Strategy Means Saying No and the blog post .
Dec 13, 2017•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ali Kriegsman and Alana Branston are the founders of Bulletin . Bulletin is a platform that allows brands to share the cost of a physical store. They currently have two locations, one in SoHo and one in Williamsburg and there are more to come. Ali and Alana went through YC Fellowship and then the winter 2017 batch. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Dec 08, 2017•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kevin Slavin is the Chief Science and Technology Officer of The Shed , which is an art center in New York that’s opening in 2019. Before The Shed, Kevin founded the Playful Systems group at MIT's Media Lab . He also gave a TED talk in 2011 called How Algorithms Shape Our World . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Dec 06, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anu Hariharan and Gustaf Alstromer are Partners at YC. This episode is a follow-up to Anu's Growth Guide . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon .
Dec 01, 2017•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Robin Sloan is a writer and media inventor based in Oakland. He just released his second novel, Sourdough . Kat Manalac is a Partner at YC. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon ....
Nov 29, 2017•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Yanqi Zhang is a cofounder and COO of Ofo . Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC.
Nov 17, 2017•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Qi Lu is the COO of Baidu . Daniel Gross is a Partner at YC.
Nov 15, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Wallerstein is Tencent's Chief eXploration Officer. Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC.
Nov 10, 2017•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Greg Brockman is the CTO and cofounder of OpenAI . Szymon Sidor is a Research Scientist at OpenAI. Sam Altman is the President of Y Combinator and Co-Chairman of OpenAI. Watch their bot compete at The International .
Nov 08, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cindy Mi is the founder and CEO of VIPKID . VIPKID is a 1-on-1 teaching platform where children in China learn english from North American teachers. Anu Hariharan is a Partner here at YC.
Nov 03, 2017•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Hackett and Casey Neistat are the cofounders of Beme , which was acquired by CNN last year. You might already know Casey from his YouTube channel which now has over 8M subscribers. And before Beme, Matt was a Hacker-in-Residence betaworks and the VP of Engineering at Tumblr ....
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