The Tim Ferriss Show

Ep 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners

Oct 9, 2014

01:43:27

Episode guests

Alexis Ohanian

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

How to Be a Great Founder

03:20

How Do You Choose What to Say No To?

03:25

Are You Focused on Getting Users Like You Say?

02:00

Introduction

3min

Y Combinator - The Best Known Start Up Accelerator in the World

3min

Is There Anything New You'd Like to Add to Your Body?

2min

The Waffle Diet, the Happiness Diet

4min

How Do You Choose What to Say No To?

2min

How Do You Choose What to Say No To?

3min

How Do You Say No to a Startup?

2min

I'd Like to Be Male, You Know, You've Never Seen Me Before.

2min

Ray Rice, Is the Guy Punch in the Face?

2min

10.

I'm Not a Tall Guy, but I Was Not a Tall Guy.

2min

11.

How to Start a Start Up

4min

12.

Do You Have Any Morning or Evening Rituals?

2min

13.

The Hand Grinder

4min

14.

What Is the Most Kind of Time in Your Day?

2min

15.

How Do You Schedule Office Hours?

4min

16.

Are You Focused on Getting Users Like You Say?

2min

17.

How to Be a Great Founder

3min

18.

Early Stage Companies - What's the Kind of Thing?

2min

19.

I've Been Criticized, Even by Some v Cs

4min

20.

I'll Be the First Person to Buy Your Teaspring Shirt

1min

21.

I Want to Do That Now. I'm Very Impressed by This Guse

3min

22.

Investing in Y-C Companies - What Are the Questions?

2min

23.

How Are You and Your Founders Animals?

4min

24.

What Are You Doing That You Don't Understand?

3min

25.

What's the Best Fe Back Tweet?

4min

26.

The Most Successful Email Ever Written

3min

27.

The Fine Line Between Determined and Responsive Versus Entitled and Arrogant

4min

28.

The Challenge of Being a Nerd Is a Human Nature Thing

4min

29.

Are Start Ups Too Expensive?

2min

30.

Is a Start Up Too Expensive to Invest In?

4min

31.

Founders Are Putting Millions of Dollars on the Table, Right?

2min

32.

How Does a Potential Acquisition Offer Factor Into This?

4min

33.

Is It in Everyone's Interests to Hold on to Equity?

2min

34.

What Would You Cook, Biance, if She Came Over?

2min

35.

What Is the Deadline for the Application?

2min

36.

The Podcast - Office Hours

2min

37.

Reclassifying Broadband Is a Bad Idea, Right?

5min

Alexis Ohanian is best known for being: - On the Forbes "30 under 30" list multiple times (then he turned 30)- A co-founder of reddit and hipmunk- In the very first class of Y Combinator, arguably the world's most selective startup "accelerator" (bootcamp)- Investor or advisor to more than 100 startups- A newly minted parter at Y Combinator- An activist related to SOPA/PIPA, etc.Enjoy! Tim

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