Y Combinator Startup Podcast

#61 - Sam Altman on Masters of Scale

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Feb 22, 2018
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Is There Anything You Would Like to Learn From YC?
02:26 • 2min
3
Is There a TAM of Near Zero?
04:09 • 4min
4
How Did You Get to YC?
08:00 • 4min
5
YC, AI, Synthetic Biology, Energy - It Could Be So Much More
12:25 • 4min
6
Scaling YC - What You Wish You'd Double Down On
16:32 • 2min
7
The Growth in the Number of People of an Organization Sneaks Up on You
18:59 • 2min
8
What I Learned From the New Yorker Profile
21:11 • 2min
9
YC Interview Process
23:17 • 2min
10
Scaling to More Than Just Silicon Valley?
25:33 • 2min
11
Y Combinator and Silicon Valley Learned How to Scale
27:17 • 3min
12
Do Things That Don't Scale
30:28 • 2min
13
YC Founders on Hiring to Scale
32:03 • 3min
14
How to Maximize the Effect of Luck in a Startup?
34:48 • 3min
15
The Right Mindset for Managing Luck
37:20 • 2min
16
The Challenges of Being a President of a Scale
38:57 • 2min
17
The Magic of Silicon Valley Is the Dense Network of Talent and Practice
41:16 • 3min
18
Is There a Culture of Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley?
44:37 • 2min
19
What You Really Want Is a Small Office
47:00 • 2min
20
What's One Question No One Has Ever Asked You?
48:39 • 2min
21
The One Outstanding Talented Job Candidate That Got Away
50:24 • 3min
22
Startup Founders - Is There a Single Poem That You've Memorized?
53:05 • 2min
23
The Single Greatest Embarrassement of Your Career
55:03 • 3min