The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Michael Seibel, chief executive of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup bootcamp, to talk about why chaotic markets are good for startups (3:50), how he ended up at YC (6:20), the importance of clarity (7:50), why it’s both easier and harder than ever to launch a company (9:10), the power of the big guys (11:35), the need for regulation (13:45), what has changed since he arrived to Silicon Valley in 2006 (18:05), why bigger is better for YC’s model (20:30), peak accelerator (24:05), getting pitched his own idea (26:10), tackling the diversity challenge (27:30), tech’s number one problem (30:10), how startups are like the NBA (34:30), stupidity vs genius (37:00), how Facebook and Google are cautionary tales (39:30), competing against Big Tech’s money (42:45), artificial intelligence (46:40), and whether scooters are overhyped (49:20)
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Compass Pathways' George Goldsmith: "Medical magic mushrooms"
Tim O'Reilly: "The landlords of the Internet"
Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse: “Replumbing the financial system”
Stanford Internet Observatory’s Renee Diresta: “Sharpies, CIA supercomputers and human antennas”
Plenty's Nate Storey: "Kale outta Compton"
Ruben Harris: "A backwards version of the Wu-Tang clan”
Mmhmm's Phil Libin: "Hospital clowns to investment bankers”
Avalanche Insights' Michiah Prull: “Measuring oomph”
Parler's John Matze: "Hate speech is free speech"
Standard Cognition's Jordan Fisher: "Cashierless stores are coming"
Higher Ground Labs' Shomik Dutta: "Nothing clarifies the mind like losing”
NYU's Paul Romer: "An evil decision"
DoNotPay’s Josh Browder: “A bot to build bots”
Bollinger Motors’ Robert Bollinger “I've spent tens of millions on a childhood dream”
Paypal's Dan Schulman: “The best way to win a fight is to avoid one”
Color of Change’s Arisha Hatch: “Silicon Valley is living a lie”
Blendjet’s Ryan Pamplin: “I’ll never sell out again”
Web Summit’s Paddy Cosgrave: “Throwing virtual tomatoes”
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