The Social Radars Jessica Livingston
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Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy are The Social Radars. Carolynn and Jessica have been working together to help thousands of startups at Y Combinator for almost 20 years. Come be a fly on the wall as they talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
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Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel
Ron Conway has been close to the center of things for longer than anyone else in Silicon Valley, from the point when he started his career at National Semiconductor in the early 70s to the AI conference he organized last month. He's the embodiment and the transmitter of Silicon Valley culture. He knows all the stories, usually because he was personally involved in them. In this episode we talk about what Silicon Valley was like when it was all about silicon, and how his career at Nat Semi led to working at and then running tech companies, and finally to angel investing.
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Kyle Vogt, Founder of Cruise Automation
Today we catch up with Kyle Vogt, whose self-driving car company, Cruise, was funded by Y Combinator in 2014 and acquired by GM in 2016. Before that he was a co-founder of Twitch and its predecessor, Justin.tv. Learn how his love of building hard things started at a young age, and why he’s nowhere near done building yet.
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Yuri Sagalov, Co-Founder of AeroFS
Today we are talking to Yuri Sagalov. His company AeroFS, which did enterprise file syncing and sharing, was funded by Y Combinator in summer 2010. Yuri went on to work at Y Combinator before starting his own fund, Wayfinder Ventures.
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Jessica & Carolynn Announce Season 3!
Announcing Season 3 of The Social Radars!
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Adora Cheung, Co-founder of Homejoy & Instalab
Today we chat with Adora Cheung, Co-founder of Homejoy (YC summer 2010) and now InstaLab, an at-home blood testing service that helps you optimize your health by measuring over 60 biomarkers. Our conversation is wide-ranging: from how to clean homes efficiently to how she helped defeat Trump in 2020 by getting hundreds of thousands of votes in swing states.
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Trevor Blackwell, Co-founder Y Combinator; Founder, Anybots
Today we have another insider episode: we're talking to Trevor Blackwell, who was my cofounder at Y Combinator. But that's not all he's done. He was also the founder of Anybots, where he created the first dynamically balancing biped robot, and also worked on Viaweb with Paul Graham and Robert Morris.
Customer Reviews
Best founder stories on the web!
These are the best founder stories on the web because they’re so relatively unvarnished, and the conversations among people who already know each other. My favorite founder stories, bar none—even better than AQ2!
This podcast will help you build your company
I used to listen to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar from Stanford when trying to figure our how to build my first company. The best lessons came from hearing founder stories. This podcast reminds me of a new and improved version.
One of the best podcasts out there!
I particularly enjoy the ends of the episodes, when Jessica and Carolynn debrief on the conversation they just had with their guest :)