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

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

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Post by wasd »

craigcannon wrote: post #11
wasd wrote: post #3

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.

So was it tracking a company that made it interesting or the fact that there was more than an hour of conversations with them?

I think it was a combination of both. By giving them more time, they were able to revisit topics and giving new perspectives. Also, more time meant more time to get comfortable and share more intimate topics.

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

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Post by bryanh »

I'd suggest a "Car Talk" or "Ask This Old House" style call-in, submit-a-question format. Short, diverse segments that are listener guided (though sometimes the shows will have other prepped segments). These often border on the how-to side of things - but are deeply educational (and very successful) formats.

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

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Post by kurttheviking »

In addition to founder analysis and commentary, I think it would be useful to hear from industry veterans about ongoing challenges/opportunities in their industry and how new companies can/should attack them. In a similar vein, how does socio-economic and political change affect these opportunities (e.g. new legislation in certain markets allowing for new technologies and processes to gain traction).

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

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Post by craigcannon »

wasd wrote: post #21
craigcannon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So was it tracking a company that made it interesting or the fact that there was more than an hour of conversations with them?

I think it was a combination of both. By giving them more time, they were able to revisit topics and giving new perspectives. Also, more time meant more time to get comfortable and share more intimate topics.

k

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

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Post by markovbling »

I'd love to hear more detail - the past podcasts were interesting but largely fluff.

Maybe post a thread on HN asking for volunteers who post a description of their startup and you do live office hours with the highest voted startup each week.

On the question of who it would be cool to hear from, I'd love to hear from YC alums talking about their YC experience, not just a sentence about it but going into detail about mistakes they made and things that helped.

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

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Post by wwalser »

craigcannon wrote: post #11
wasd wrote: post #3

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.

So was it tracking a company that made it interesting or the fact that there was more than an hour of conversations with them?

Not the op but: Gimlet is very good at creating well put together and edited stories. That seasons is very human and dives headlong into the painful (and beautiful) parts of slowly grinding and iterating toward failure. Failure from an investor perspective at least, it ends up being a non-scalable, labor intensive lifestyle business that loads of people would be proud to have built.

It was the opposite of the YC podcast: I'm a human that grew up, I went to college X, Applied to YC, Tried X, Y but Z is the one that worked. Company is great we raised money.

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

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Post by wwalser »

craigcannon wrote: post #18
wwalser wrote: post #12

I listened to all of the previous episodes and enjoyed the podcast. I'm glad you're getting it started back up. My only negative feedback would be that by the end it felt similar to what investors say about demo day. All of the companies stores were packaged up with a bow on them to the point that basically every story was the same by the end of the episode. I get it, this is VC content marketing after all, you need…

That's a good note. I'm now thinking of the podcast as more of a channel than a show. I.e. a place where we can try out multiple episode types. Re: tactics. Maybe we just choose one particular topic per tactics episode and drill down on relevant strategies? I guess we can include Qasar ;)

Just don't let Justin join him. They'd clown too hard :p

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

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Post by guyInAustin »

wwalser wrote: post #12

I listened to all of the previous episodes and enjoyed the podcast. I'm glad you're getting it started back up. My only negative feedback would be that by the end it felt similar to what investors say about demo day. All of the companies stores were packaged up with a bow on them to the point that basically every story was the same by the end of the episode. I get it, this is VC content marketing after all, you need…

I like this idea with a combination of philip1209's idea above. Office hours but in depth planning and strategy, so the founders are getting the tactical advice and then we hear how it worked it. Might be hard to do but I would enjoy it a lot.

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

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Post by craigcannon »

vdnkh wrote: post #19
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.

Like NPR's car talk?

Haha. Yeah, sort of. Just hours and hours about setting up development environments :)
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