Ask HN: Submit Questions for Office Hours with YC

When we announced that we’d be restarting the podcast [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12969562], many HN users requested Office Hours as a recurring segment. We’re kicking that off next week on YouTube.

Sam’s generously offered to go first. So, if you have a question, please post a few sentences of context and the question here. We’ll do our best to answer as many questions as possible.

You can subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/ycombinator to get the video when it’s posted.

Looking forward to this!

What are your thoughts on having a closed group of people/friends supporting each other, helping each other succeed, investing in each-others ideas, using warm referrals and sharing early product adopters as the best marketing strategy?

In other words - is networking more important than innovation nowadays?

When founding a startup, is being a college student an advantage or a disadvantage. Does it matter at all?

Sam, How do you see the future of the "Sign Up with Email and Password" field across the World Wide Web? Do you think that this method is associated with inconvenience and seems outdated at all?

In short -- By your vision, what is the future of "Sign Up" in the digital world?

Thank you very much for the response!

What would you focus on if you were among the initial Mars colony?