Ask YC: What happened to the YC podcast?

13 points by sarthakjshetty 4 years ago | 4 comments

Pretty much the title.

I genuinely enjoyed listening to Craig discuss with different YC founders about the ups and downs of starting up, pivoting etc. As someone who doesn't enjoy long videos, the YC podcast was a godsend, well integrated with my daily commute and routine. I genuienly miss it and would love if it was brought back, or at least an update as to why it was discontinued.

Thanks!

1123581321 4 years ago |

Craig Cannon, who was doing the podcast, left YC and it stoped. Couldn’t say why they failed to find a new host. I thought it was gaining good traction as well.

sarthakjshetty 4 years ago | |

Yup, my thoughts exactly as well. You don't even need a host I think? I remeber Daniel Gross, Kat Menalac, Sam Altman, Geoff Ralston helping out with the interviews. I'm sure it would've evolved to become a great source of founder stories. Sigh.

lamroger 4 years ago |

Lots of fresh YC content on Youtube now

sarthakjshetty 4 years ago | |

very true, but I'm talking about the interviews that they used to do with different founders in a conversation type format. I really enjoyed Craig's detailed questions and thorough research.

I remember listening to the episode with the Voodoo co-founders [1], and it helped guide my research direction in college.

I also remember being exposed to an early flavour of RL through the episode with Greg Brockman and Sam Altman [1], where they spoke about the OpenAI DoTA bots. I regularly listen to episodes again and I always unearth some bits of wisdom that I overlooked in previous listens.

I think that series of interviews was largely due to PG and Sam's idealogy of structuring YC (and now OpenAI) as a college campus/research institute, rather than an incubator/VC fund.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x86QJQQy17s [2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdIPveR__jw