Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Rana Adhikari is a Professor of Physics at Caltech and a member of the LIGO team, who were the first to measure gravitational waves.Their detection papers are available here.

Elizabeth Iorns is cofounder and CEO of Science Exchange.Here's info on the YC Fall Tour.Apply to the Winter 2018 batch.

Tikhon Bernstam cofounded Scribd (YC S06) and Parse (YC S11).Read the transcript here.

Hosain Rahman is the CEO and Founder of Jawbone. Jessica Livingston is a cofounder of YC.Jessica interviewed Hosain during our 2014 Startup School and this is the recording of their conversation. If you'd like to check out our 2016 Startup School videos they're in a playlist here.

Laura Behrens Wu, CEO and cofounder of Shippo, discusses the challenges of e-commerce shipping, the future of Blue Apron in the face of Amazon's dominance, e-commerce trends and sustainability, shipping quirks with USPS, types of shipping providers and their specializations, becoming a better manager, and advice for starting a B2B startup.

Lauren McCarthy is an artist and assistant professor at UCLA.Her latest project LAUREN, is a human intelligent smart home. Lauren will visit your home, deploy a series of smart devices, and watch over you remotely 24/7. Learn more here - http://get-lauren.com

Jack Dorsey is the CEO of Twitter and Square. This is his talk from Startup School 2013.Read the transcript here.

Phil Libin, CEO of All Turtles, talks about the prerequisites for starting a company, including the importance of exceptional co-founders and assembling a talented team. He shares his experience merging companies and creating Evernote, as well as the pitfalls of being overly clever with company structure. He also discusses the desperation of securing an investment and the challenges and rewards of starting a company.

Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier, discusses their $10,000 relocation offer for new employees and its impact on hiring high-quality candidates. They explore winner-take-all markets and network effects, emphasizing the importance of connections. Advice for founders outside the Bay Area includes focusing on fundamentals and debunking the perception that the best companies are only in the Bay Area. Challenges of building a billion-dollar company in an untapped city are discussed, along with the importance of learning, taking risks, and finding experienced mentors for scaling.

During the Female Founders Conference Kat Manalac invited three YC founders on stage to share their experiences of fundraising. The founders are Elizabeth Iorns of Science Exchange, Vanessa Torrivilla of Goldbely, and Erica Jensen of The Flex Company.