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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 craigcannon »

birken wrote: post #67

The type of podcast I'd like to listen to is if you got a roundtable of people in various roles (like a roundtable of all technical founders, or a roundtable of all first employees, or a roundtable of all solo founders), and then asked them questions and let them discuss and debate topics, optimally ones submitted by listeners. And perhaps if a subset of those people were particularly good have them on semi-regularly…

Great idea. Thanks for suggesting!

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

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Post by grzm »

equalarrow wrote: post #96
atmosx wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would be very interested in Thiel's take on: * Trump presidency, what the tech/startup should expect from the new Gov. * His views on privacy and ethics (I know, Palantir and everything, but that's why it makes so interesting to hear from him) * His take on the top-10 technologies of the future

Agreed. I'm still scratching my head on why he would back Trump. Reading Zero to One right now and it's great. But, I guess there's just stuff I don't know about Trump that would make Thiel support him. I'm not trying to say this in a negative way - I just am trying to figure out the connection(s). So if you could get him on a podcast talking about this, it would be awesome!

There are plenty of discussions on HN about this, including references to talks and writings by Peter Thiel, if you're interested. You could probably get a pretty good idea into why he did. Two references off the top of my head that would be particularly on topic would be his keynote at the RNC and the National Press Club interview.

RNC keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTJB8AkT1dk

National Press Club interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-LJqPQEJ4

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

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Post by seltzered_ »

YC harc folks (e.g. Bret Victor, Yoshiko ohshima ) -theyve shaped technology but afaik they don't do many interviews

Vinay Gupta - hexayurt dude / blockchain evangelizer now trying to start an accelerator

Mariana mazzucato - economist, author of rethinking capitalism

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

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Post by sandGorgon »

Audio or video ? Snapchat/Periscope/Facebook Live would be a much better medium.

IMHO Justin Kan already demonstrated what works - office hours !

Office hours are YC's killer feature ..and also the reason why Startup School's format also follows office hours. I don't think YC should do a Techcrunchy podcast.

If anything - do a weekly Q&A with someone famous where users are able to submit questions.

TL;DR - bring the YC format to the podcast.

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

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Post by arkj »

davidw wrote: post #75

I don't do podcasts, I vastly prefer the written word: * I can scan quickly. * I can search for things. * It's easier for me to read things than listen. I don't drive much, so don't have dead time when I can only listen.

You can try the 1.5 or 2x speeds. It was odd for me in the begining but after listening for a while at 2x speed hearing adapted pretty well. One caveat, it may make one speak a bit faster.
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