Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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.

Adam Coates, Director of Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab, discusses the lab's work in speech-to-text and text-to-speech projects, scaling speech recognition for better performance, the potential of speech recognition as a product, concerns of faking voices, the impact of AI on jobs, and the process of finding and nurturing experts in the AI field.

Padmasree Warrior is the CEO of NIO.Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC Continuity.

Diane Greene is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware.Jessica Livingston is cofounder of YC.

Morgan DeBaun is the founder and CEO of Blavity.Kat Manalac is a Partner at YC.