Y Combinator Startup Podcast

This podcast has been a guiding light as an entrepreneur in technology. The insights Craig and the team are able to pull out of a wide array of founders has helped shaped my approach to product development, leadership and fundraising. As someone who hopes to join a future YC batch this is an essential starting point to get in the right mindset for navigating life as a founder.

laughing that sounds this annoying can only be emitted from snarky venture capitalists

Start here. Don’t need to go to Silicon Valley to experience it. Some good advice. But it’s easier to laugh at people and talk like this than to humbly be constructive or to build successful global/publicly listed companies. That’s why they are here in the business of mansplaining. Tech is to serve people and other industries. It’s just a tool and business model, even SaaS at the end is just a tool for either analytics, marketing outreach, or project management, document processing etc. The fact that it is wrongly glorified and has been slapped by the reality of bad performance for the past 2 year says that these people don’t truly understand (global) market dynamics, in human relations, systems or policies. Have they even gone out of their bubble?

You are the biggest startup accelerator in the world. Why do your podcast interviews sound like two people shouting at each other from different sides of a basketball court? Lots of shows do Zoom interviews for their podcasts so it’s not a unique problem, figure out how they do it and go from there.