How the Biggest YC Companies Got Started

How the Biggest YC Companies Got Started(mixergy.com)

27 points by sachitgupta 11 years ago | 13 comments

Raldi, I made a change in response to your comment: "I think it would be a lot more ethical if you presented it openly as such, right from the start. For example, the big button at the bottom of the page could say, "Subscribe to our interview-of-the-week series!""

The button is changed. It didn't occur to me that people would think that this wasn't coming via email over time. I guess I was too close to this project.

raldi 11 years ago | |

Thanks! I've edited my comment.

raldi 11 years ago |

The interviews are trapped behind a spamwall. You can't reach them until you divulge your email address. Once you're on the list, only then do they admit that they actually only have one interview available so far, and send you a link to download it.

Edit: Originally, I included the direct-download link here. But Andrew's made some changes to the site's UI in the past hour which directly addressed my biggest objections, so I'm removing it.

AndrewWarner 11 years ago | |

Mike, I have the interviews. They're interviews I recorded over the past 6 years.

I'm trying a new way of distributing them. It's an experiment to see if giving 1 interview at a time will get more people to listen to each interview. In the past, I put all the interviews on a single page, but I looked at the data and noticed that most people download the interview with the biggest name and ignore the others. I think the less known people are often more helpful.

And I would never spam you. I'm asking for an email address because that's the easiest way to do this. The original idea for this was to have it come out via RSS so you could get a new one in your podcast app every couple of days. But that seems like a pain.

raldi 11 years ago | | |

I think it would be a lot more ethical if you presented it openly as such, right from the start. For example, the big button at the bottom of the page could say, "Subscribe to our interview-of-the-week series!"

virtuexru 11 years ago |

Quite possibly the worst article submission ever that is voted up only on its merit of a good clickbait title.

AndrewWarner 11 years ago | |

What don't you like about it? Say more. I'm open to your feedback.

sushid 11 years ago | | |

It might a combination of these few things:

1. Only a single interview 2. No interviews with actual YC-backed founders 3. Has a spamwall 4. Has a bunch of audio ads at the start

Edit: Andrew has addressed all four issues almost immediately. I believe that my fourth issue was just me making a frivolous point. My initial impression was that there were no interviews at the moment (besides the one with Jessica Livingston) and hearing a few ads after jumping through the hoop felt like I was deceived. Thanks for the clarification, Andrew.