21 episodes
The Social Radars Jessica Livingston
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4.8 • 78 Ratings
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Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy are The Social Radars. Carolynn and Jessica have been working together to help thousands of startups at Y Combinator for almost 20 years. Come be a fly on the wall as they talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
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Yuri Sagalov, Co-Founder of AeroFS
Today we are talking to Yuri Sagalov. His company AeroFS, which did enterprise file syncing and sharing, was funded by Y Combinator in summer 2010. Yuri went on to work at Y Combinator before starting his own fund, Wayfinder Ventures.
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Jessica & Carolynn Announce Season 3!
Announcing Season 3 of The Social Radars!
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Adora Cheung, Co-founder of Homejoy & Instalab
Today we chat with Adora Cheung, Co-founder of Homejoy (YC summer 2010) and now InstaLab, an at-home blood testing service that helps you optimize your health by measuring over 60 biomarkers. Our conversation is wide-ranging: from how to clean homes efficiently to how she helped defeat Trump in 2020 by getting hundreds of thousands of votes in swing states.
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Trevor Blackwell, Co-founder Y Combinator; Founder, Anybots
Today we have another insider episode: we're talking to Trevor Blackwell, who was my cofounder at Y Combinator. But that's not all he's done. He was also the founder of Anybots, where he created the first dynamically balancing biped robot, and also worked on Viaweb with Paul Graham and Robert Morris.
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Parker Conrad, Founder of Zenefits & Rippling
Today we're talking with Parker Conrad, who founded two startups that went on to become unicorns: Zenefits in 2013, and Rippling in 2016. Parker’s story is one the more dramatic ones you’ll hear on this podcast. In fact this episode is two stories: his misadventures at Zenefits, and the ambitious ideas he has implemented at Rippling.
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Emmett Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch
Today we talk with Emmett Shear, who was in the very first YC batch in 2005 with a startup called Kiko. But you know him better as the co-founder of Twitch, which YC funded in 2007. Learn how Twitch grew from one guy walking around with a camera on his head to one of the biggest communities on the internet. It's a crazy story even by startup standards. Enjoy!
Customer Reviews
Best founder stories on the web!
These are the best founder stories on the web because they’re so relatively unvarnished, and the conversations among people who already know each other. My favorite founder stories, bar none—even better than AQ2!
This podcast will help you build your company
I used to listen to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar from Stanford when trying to figure our how to build my first company. The best lessons came from hearing founder stories. This podcast reminds me of a new and improved version.
One of the best podcasts out there!
I particularly enjoy the ends of the episodes, when Jessica and Carolynn debrief on the conversation they just had with their guest :)