a radio shrink kind of format would be interesting, people outside the YC can call in with their startup problems and YC partners answer it.
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?
#52I'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.
I listened to the podcast and they did often mention that they were broadcasting and gave a call in number, but I don't recall them ever taking a call. I'm not sure if no one ever called in or if they just never took a call?
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#53I'd love to hear YC Partners (and some founders) have discussions about areas where they have great expertise and passion.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#54>Who is just really interesting and you’d love to hear more from?
I'd actually like you to tell me who is interesting. I'd like to hear fun/interesting stories from YC companies. Perhaps there are great stories of companies that flamed out or failed to build a product and therefore we have never heard of them. I want to hear about those people just as much as I want to hear about Dropbox/Airbnb/Stripe et al.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#55I'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.
So... Car Talk?
You'ld need really good hosts, but it could be fun.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#56Tactical steps YC startups have taken to jump through any one of the de-risking steps: https://codingvc.com/how-to-de-risk-a-startup/ would be fantastic. Especially stories of creative jumps. You could do a poll of the YC network internally and have people share stories that then get mentioned per-problem or per-industry over time. A discussion underneath could allow others to share stories as well - beyond the YC ne…
As the author of the linked post I'm a little biased, but I love this idea. I think anonymous stories about concrete things founders do to de-risk their ideas would be a really interesting subject, and potentially very useful.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#57It does have to be VC focused, doesn't it?
Ah well. We may not all be VCs, but it is your business.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#58Some ideas:
Antonio García Martínez, author of Chaos Monkeys.
Bobby Goodlatte on Facebook's news feed algorithm and the election.
Peter Thiel on Trump and what's next, etc.
Justin Edmond on early Pinterest and diversity in Silicon Valley.
Dann Petty on Epicurrence and design culture in Silicon Valley.
Kim-Mai Culter on Initialized Capital and housing in the Bay Area.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#59Hearing about failures (whether micro or macro) is almost always more interesting than hearing about successes.
Re: Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
#60I'm interested in hearing more from serial technical founders. They're usually quite busy and don't blog or do interviews as often as the CEOs.
For instance, I just started using LogDNA and was really impressed by the product, looked up the team and discovered it's Lee Liu's third(?) company. Alex Maccaw has had an influence on my career from his JS work and Stripe product, then Sourcing.io and now Clearbit. Max Krohn: SparkNotes, OkCupid, now Keybase, I still think Max's async solutions are some of the best in the business.
Writing code while growing a team and communicating with the other founders to build a product requires a smart balance. The technical choices made by these founders tend to be very efficient and easy to communicate to others. I would love to hear more from any of these founders (Thanks all for your work!), and I'm sure YC knows of more such founders I haven't yet discovered.