Paul Graham on Mixergy, today 2pm EST/11am PST

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Post by vaksel » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 5:10 PM UTC

Paul Graham on Mixergy, today 2pm EST/11am PST
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Post by ANH » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 5:25 PM UTC

Andrew Warner (founder of Mixergy) has a great interviewing style. Should be good.

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Post by acangiano » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 6:10 PM UTC

ANH wrote: post #2

Andrew Warner (founder of Mixergy) has a great interviewing style. Should be good.

I think Andrew is doing an amazing job. My respect for him skyrocketed when I watched his interview with the bribe kid. He handled that extremely professionally.

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Post by staunch » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 6:31 PM UTC

I just hope it's a lengthy interview. I don't think I've ever seen an in-depth interview with PG.

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Post by AndrewWarner » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 6:32 PM UTC

staunch wrote: post #5

I just hope it's a lengthy interview. I don't think I've ever seen an in-depth interview with PG.

I'm aiming for about an hour. I haven't seen lengthy interviews with pg either, which made my research harder.

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Post by AndrewWarner » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 6:33 PM UTC

If you have any questions, add them here. I'll check these comments about 10 minutes before we go live.

The focus is the biography of Y Combinator.

Along the way I'd like to learn how pg gives the kind of insight that past Mixergy guests said turned their businesses around.

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Post by icey » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 6:39 PM UTC

I'd like to know who the first company that YC wanted to invest in was - whether or not they were able to and if it worked out (in case it's a company we don't know the name of).

I'd also like to know if there are parallels in running an venture firm to running a startup. Does it take the same kind of guts? Do you get discouraged from a lot of failures? etc

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Post by todd3834 » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 6:42 PM UTC

AndrewWarner wrote: post #7

If you have any questions, add them here. I'll check these comments about 10 minutes before we go live. The focus is the biography of Y Combinator. Along the way I'd like to learn how pg gives the kind of insight that past Mixergy guests said turned their businesses around.

How much time should be invested in an idea before approaching YC for seed funding (or more importantly the mentorship) and if rejected once does it hurt your chance at being accepted a second, third of fourth try with different ideas?

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Post by maxklein » Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 6:43 PM UTC

My questions:

- Is he always calm? Does he ever get angry and throw things around?

- Has he ever 'cut off' a YC company from access to YC?

- What is the current relationship between YC and the early successful companies like reddit and loopt. Is there any? Do they call ever now and then?

- What proportion of YC applicants come from name-brand universities?

- If a YC company becomes a lifestyle company, does YC still profit? Or does YC only profit on a big sale?

- If a YC company folds and significantly changes, like DraftMix, is YC still involved in the new company, or do they lose their 6% when the company changes?

- What mobile phone does he use?

- Would he accept a patch to get rid of the tables on news.ycombinator and change to css?