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

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

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

03:15 • 3min

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

06:24 • 2min

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The Waffle Diet, the Happiness Diet

08:30 • 4min

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How Do You Choose What to Say No To?

12:39 • 2min

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How Do You Choose What to Say No To?

14:17 • 3min

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How Do You Say No to a Startup?

17:42 • 2min

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

19:54 • 2min

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Ray Rice, Is the Guy Punch in the Face?

21:57 • 2min

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

23:49 • 2min

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How to Start a Start Up

25:43 • 4min

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Do You Have Any Morning or Evening Rituals?

29:32 • 2min

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The Hand Grinder

31:40 • 4min

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What Is the Most Kind of Time in Your Day?

35:50 • 2min

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How Do You Schedule Office Hours?

37:32 • 4min

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Are You Focused on Getting Users Like You Say?

41:20 • 2min

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How to Be a Great Founder

43:20 • 3min

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

46:40 • 2min

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I've Been Criticized, Even by Some v Cs

49:02 • 4min

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

53:19 • 1min

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

54:47 • 3min

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

57:27 • 2min

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How Are You and Your Founders Animals?

59:35 • 4min

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What Are You Doing That You Don't Understand?

01:03:15 • 3min

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What's the Best Fe Back Tweet?

01:06:44 • 4min

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The Most Successful Email Ever Written

01:10:50 • 3min

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The Fine Line Between Determined and Responsive Versus Entitled and Arrogant

01:13:26 • 4min

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The Challenge of Being a Nerd Is a Human Nature Thing

01:17:07 • 4min

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Are Start Ups Too Expensive?

01:20:52 • 2min

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Is a Start Up Too Expensive to Invest In?

01:22:45 • 4min

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

01:26:38 • 2min

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How Does a Potential Acquisition Offer Factor Into This?

01:28:16 • 4min

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

01:32:45 • 2min

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

01:34:51 • 2min

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What Is the Deadline for the Application?

01:36:53 • 2min

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The Podcast - Office Hours

01:38:41 • 2min

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Reclassifying Broadband Is a Bad Idea, Right?

01:40:33 • 5min