The Social Radars

The hosts reflect on memorable moments from season 2 and express gratitude for listeners. They discuss excitement for season 3, reveal a special guest, and share heartwarming feedback from listeners.

Today we chat with Adora Cheung, Co-founder of Homejoy & Instalab. Topics range from efficient home cleaning to defeating Trump in 2020. They discuss acquiring users for Homejoy, challenges as a female founder in the home cleaning business, lessons from Y Combinator, using targeted ads to increase voter turnout, and making small changes for health and weight loss.

Trevor Blackwell, Co-founder Y Combinator and founder of Anybots, discusses his inspiring journey from Saskatchewan to Harvard, creating a robot that walks, jumps, and runs, their experiences with power outages and generators, and their early days of Y Combinator.

Parker Conrad, founder of Zenefits & Rippling, discusses the controversy at Zenefits and the challenges faced in scaling the company. He also talks about building a suite of integrated products on a foundation of employee data, the urgency of Y Combinator, and how Rippling helps companies become more efficient.

Emmett Shear, co-founder of Twitch, shares the crazy story of how Twitch grew from one guy walking around with a camera on his head to one of the biggest communities on the internet. He discusses the challenges of live streaming, building infrastructure, and the financial struggles faced during the 2008 financial crisis. Shear also talks about the intensive nature of being a visiting partner at YC and the benefits of selling a company to Amazon.

In this episode, the hosts interview Patrick and John Collison, co-founders of Stripe. They discuss their first meeting and dinner as teenagers, the concept of the 'YC cool meter' in attracting startup founders, the early days of web hosting, and how they convinced banks and credit card companies to work with them.

Bill Clerico, co-founder of WePay, an early fintech pioneer, discusses the challenges faced during the transition of their business and their acquisition by JP Morgan. The podcast also includes a conversation on baby-proofing, concerns about the future world and climate change, and the innovative work of Overstory in monitoring vegetation growth around power lines using satellite imagery.

Dimitri Dadiomov, Co-Founder & CEO of Modern Treasury, discusses the complexity of money movement, liquidity issues during a bank run, ideal startup timing, and the future of Modern Treasury.

Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase, discusses the early days of Bitcoin, Coinbase's mission-driven approach, fraud prevention in cryptocurrency, and the concept of being aggressively independent minded as a founder.

Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, discusses the early days of the company, the impact of the pandemic, running a company with attention to detail, resilience during challenging times, the importance of determination, and the origins of Airbnb.