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Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?

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Post by craigcannon » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 6:01 PM UTC

Hey HN.

I’m Craig. I work at YC. We’re starting the podcast up again and want your input.

Who do you think we should interview?

We’re open to all suggestions but maybe these prompts will help:

- Who has shaped technology and hasn’t done many interviews?

- Who has an interesting take on the future and is building it?

- Who is just really interesting and you’d love to hear more from?

Thanks for your input. Can’t wait to see who this post surfaces :)

Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?

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Post by gordon_freeman » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

I'd like to hear from Founders who have very interesting stories and journeys to share. I do not care if their products got traction,flopped or big hit. All I want to get is how can we as listeners can learn from their success or failures. Thanks for doing this.

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Post by wasd » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

I really enjoyed the depth that Startup Podcast/Gimlet Media went with Dating Ring. In my opinion, there's a lot of great content you can cover in an hour but it's hard to cover new content given how many other podcasts there are.

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Post by tmaly » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

Craig, I really enjoyed the podcast, I am actually working my way through all of the old episodes during my commute.

I would really like to hear from founders that are still running the business and are still profitable.

Something like how posts on indiehackers.com but with more detail would be interesting.

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#5

Post by nipung » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 6:57 PM UTC

Hey Craig,

I love podcasts, and as a matter of fact host one myself called Veni Vidi VC. Despite the shameless plug, I would love to hear from successful YC founders who have had exits.

The entire process is fascinating to me, including: - building a company - raising funds, and - making it ready to be absorbed as part of a corporation or better yet, becoming a public company

Infact, all founders from every startup in this list is interesting to me - https://mattermark.com/mattermark-startup-index-top-10-y-com....

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Post by philip1209 » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 6:59 PM UTC

I'd love to hear "office hour"-style stuff. Somebody who's having a problem, you work on solving it together, then maybe in a month you do a retro on how it worked. Might be cool to wait enough time that the episode has a "before and after" in the same episode.

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Post by craigcannon » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

philip1209 wrote: post #6

I'd love to hear "office hour"-style stuff. Somebody who's having a problem, you work on solving it together, then maybe in a month you do a retro on how it worked. Might be cool to wait enough time that the episode has a "before and after" in the same episode.

Cool. We can definitely do that. Any particular size or type of company that interests you?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

philip1209 wrote: post #6

I'd love to hear "office hour"-style stuff. Somebody who's having a problem, you work on solving it together, then maybe in a month you do a retro on how it worked. Might be cool to wait enough time that the episode has a "before and after" in the same episode.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

philip1209 wrote: post #6

I'd love to hear "office hour"-style stuff. Somebody who's having a problem, you work on solving it together, then maybe in a month you do a retro on how it worked. Might be cool to wait enough time that the episode has a "before and after" in the same episode.

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Post by craigcannon » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 7:10 PM UTC

nipung wrote: post #5

Hey Craig, I love podcasts, and as a matter of fact host one myself called Veni Vidi VC. Despite the shameless plug, I would love to hear from successful YC founders who have had exits. The entire process is fascinating to me, including: - building a company - raising funds, and - making it ready to be absorbed as part of a corporation or better yet, becoming a public company Infact, all founders from every startup i…

K. Can you be more specific? Is it the post-exit stuff that's most interesting? Personally, I want to avoid telling stories that have already been widely documented.