"Talk to users" and the surrounding processes/changes/workflows. There's no such thing as "too deep" on this. I'd pay for a podcast where it's JUST that, with a new test every week.
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?
#32I'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…
K. What about the YC experience do you want to know more about?
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#33Not sure if this is within the podcast's scope or not: Editas Medicine ( http://www.editasmedicine.com/ ). Or people from similar companies. Gene editing startups, essentially.
Definitely within the scope. Thanks for the specific suggestion.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Okay, if you want to focus on completely untold stories I believe every stories from every startup from Seed to Series A is interesting. For example - the process of figuring out a mission, testing out a product market fit, and pivoting to a product that is actually usable by customers would be uber cool to hear about. Also would love to hear about YC projects that are not that famous - OpenAI, Smart Cities project,…
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#35It could be useful to have "horizontal" episodes around a problem, e.g. three companies that survived a founder leaving.
Good idea!
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#36I'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.
Cool. Seems like a lot of people want an office hours-style episode type.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#37"Talk to users" and the surrounding processes/changes/workflows. There's no such thing as "too deep" on this. I'd pay for a podcast where it's JUST that, with a new test every week.
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#38In 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).
I like that a lot.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#39Earlier 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?
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 podc…
Yes, wwalser articulated this much better than me.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#40I love hearing Russ Roberts of econ talk (http://www.econtalk.org/), but he's almost always interviewing someone. It would be cool to hear him because (1) he interviews a lot of people who either write about or are involved in building the future (automation, driverless cars, sharing economy, etc.), and (2) he has a different perspective on how to approach problems making him interesting to listen to.