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#24 - Padmasree Warrior on Designing Autonomous Vehicles - With Anu Hariharan at the Female Founders Conference
Aug 9, 201722 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Padmasree" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Padmasree Warrior</a> is the CEO of <a href="http://www.nio.io/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NIO</a>.<br><br><a href="https://twitter.com/anuhariharan">Anu Hariharan</a> is a Partner at YC Continuity.</p>

#23 - VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference
Aug 4, 201725 min<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Greene">Diane Greene</a> is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/jesslivingston">Jessica Livingston</a> is cofounder of YC.</p>

#22 - Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference
Aug 2, 201726 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/morgandebaun">Morgan DeBaun</a> is the founder and CEO of <a href="https://blavity.com/">Blavity</a>.<br><br><a href="https://twitter.com/katmanalac">Kat Manalac</a> is a Partner at YC.<br></p>

#21 - Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference
Jul 26, 201727 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/emilywweiss">Emily Weiss</a> is the founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.glossier.com/">Glossier</a>.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/amybue">Amy Buechler</a> is Batch Director at YC.<br></p><p>Video and transcript are <a href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/emily-weiss-on-the-insights-that-grew-glossier-with-amy-buechler-at-the-female-founders-conference">on the YC blog</a>.</p>

#20 - Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta
Jul 21, 201744 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/douglas_eck">Doug Eck</a> is a research scientist at Google and he’s working on Magenta, a project making music and art through machine learning.</p><p>If you want to learn more you can check out <a href="https://magenta.tensorflow.org/">Magenta.Tensorflow.org</a><br><br></p>

#19 - Blockchain Investing - Olaf Carlson-Wee and Aaron Harris
Jul 19, 201753 min<p>Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder and CEO of <a href="http://polychain.capital/">Polychain Capital</a>.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/harris" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Aaron Harris</a> is a Partner at YC.<br></p>

#18 - Q&A with YC Partners at the Female Founders Conference
Jul 14, 201722 min<p>This Q&A was recorded at our fourth annual Female Founders Conference.</p><p><br>Partners: <a href="https://twitter.com/KatManalac">Kat Manalac</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jesslivingston">Jessica Livingston</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/nolimits">Adora Cheung</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/anuhariharan">Anu Hariharan</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/cjoneslevy">Carolynn Levy</a>, and Kirsty Nathoo.<br></p>

#17 - Aileen Lee and Kirsty Nathoo at the Female Founders Conference
Jul 12, 201727 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/aileenlee">Aileen Lee</a> is the founder of Cowboy Ventures.</p><p>Kirsty Nathoo is CFO and a Partner at Y Combinator.<br></p>

#16 - Mark Zuckerberg on How to Build the Future
Jul 7, 201726 min<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck">Mark Zuckerberg</a> is the cofounder of Facebook.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/sama">Sam Altman</a> is the president of YC Group and he interviewed Mark for a series called How To Build The Future, which you can watch on <a href="http://youtube.com/ycombinator">YC’s YouTube channel</a>.</p>

#15 - IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO - Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell
Jun 30, 20172h 14m<p><a href="https://twitter.com/juanbenet">Juan Benet</a> is the founder of Protocol Labs (YC S14). They're working on IPFS, Filecoin, and Coinlist.<br> </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/daltonc">Dalton Caldwell</a> is a Partner at YC.</p>

#14 - Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan
Jun 28, 201753 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/mpshanahan">Murray Shanahan</a> was one of the scientific advisors on Ex Machina. </p><p>He's also a Research Scientist at DeepMind and professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London.</p><p>His book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Embodiment-inner-life-Cognition-Consciousness/dp/0199226555" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Embodiment and the Inner Life</a> served as inspiration for Alex Garland while he was writing the screenplay for Ex Machina.</p>

#13 - Scaling Growth - Gustaf Alstromer, Ed Baker, and Josh Elman
Jun 23, 201735 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/gustaf">Gustaf Alstromer</a> is a YC Partner and prior to YC he worked on growth at Airbnb.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/esbaker">Ed Baker</a> worked on growth at Uber and Facebook.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/joshelman">Josh Elman</a> is a partner at Greylock.<br></p><p>The conversation was recorded at The Scaleup Offsite, a private event hosted by Y Combinator Continuity and Greylock Partners in April 2017.<br><br></p><p> <br><br></p>

#12 - How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? - Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel
Jun 21, 201734 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/bussgang">Jeff Bussgang</a> is a lecturer at Harvard Business School and General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/mwseibel">Michael Seibel</a> is CEO of YC.</p>

#11 - At The Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang
Jun 16, 201739 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/timhwang">Tim Hwang</a> is the Global Public Policy Lead on AI and Machine Learning for Google.<br></p><p><a href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/at-the-intersection-of-ai-governments-and-google-tim-hwang">Read the transcript</a> on our blog.</p>

#10 - Office Hours with Ali Rowghani
Jun 14, 201724 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/rowghani">Ali Rowghani</a> is CEO of Y Combinator Continuity, where he invests in and advises growth-stage startups. Ali directly contributed to the growth of two great companies -- at Twitter, as CFO then COO, and at Pixar as CFO and SVP of Strategic Planning.</p><p><a href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/office-hours-with-ali-rowghani">Read the transcript</a> on our blog.<br></p>

#9 - Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman - From Startup to Scaleup
Jun 9, 201741 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/sama">Sam Altman</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/reidhoffman">Reid Hoffman</a> discuss the key changes founders should think about as they scale their company.<br> <br>The conversation was recorded at The Scaleup Offsite, a private event hosted by Y Combinator Continuity and Greylock Partners in April 2017.<br></p>

#8 - Rick and Morty Writer - Ryan Ridley
Jun 7, 201753 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ryanridley">Ryan Ridley</a> is a writer on Rick and Morty. Before that he was a writer on Community.</p><p>Read the transcript and show notes <a href="https://blog.ycombinator.com/rick-and-morty-writer-ryan-ridley">on the YC blog</a>.</p>

#7 - Jessica Livingston on How to Build the Future
May 31, 201737 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/sama">Sam Altman</a> interviews <a href="https://twitter.com/jesslivingston">Jessica Livingston</a> for a series called How To Build The Future, which you can watch on YC’s YouTube channel: <a href="https://youtube.com/ycombinator">https://youtube.com/ycombinator</a>.</p> <p>Read the transcript here: <a href="https://blog.ycombinator.com/jessica-livingston-on-htfbt/">https://blog.ycombinator.com/jessica-livingston-on-htfbt/</a></p><p><br></p>

#6 - Office Hours with Kat Manalac
May 24, 201728 min<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Kat Manalac is a Partner at YC.</span></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Read the transcript here - </span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">https://blog.ycombinator.com/office-hours-with-kat-manalac/</span></font><br></div>

#5 - An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba
May 15, 201755 min<p>Wojciech Zaremba is a cofounder of <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a> (https://openai.com).</p> <p>OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company, focused on discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/an-ai-primer-with-wojciech-zaremba">Read the transcript here</a> (http://blog.ycombinator.com/an-ai-primer-with-wojciech-zaremba).</p>

#4 - Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
May 15, 201722 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/sama">Sam Altman</a> interviews <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk">Elon Musk</a> for a series called How To Build The Future, which you can watch on YC’s <a href="https://youtube.com/ycombinator">YouTube channel</a> (https://youtube.com/ycombinator).</p> <p><a href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/elon-musk-on-how-to-build-the-future/">Read the transcript here</a> (http://blog.ycombinator.com/elon-musk-on-how-to-build-the-future/).</p>

#3 - The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO - Ed McManus
May 15, 201734 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/emcmanus">Ed McManus</a> was the technical advisor for season three of Silicon Valley on HBO.</p> <p>He came in to talk about what his experience working on the show.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-advisor-for-silicon-valley-on-hbo-ed-mcmanus">Read the transcript here</a> (http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-advisor-for-silicon-valley-on-hbo-ed-mcmanus).</p>

#2 - Network Effects with Anu Hariharan
May 15, 201735 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/anuhariharan">Anu Hariharan</a> is a Partner at <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/continuity/">YC Continuity</a> (https://www.ycombinator.com/continuity) which is an investment fund dedicated to supporting founders as they scale their companies.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/anu-hariharan-on-network-effects/">Read the transcript here</a> (http://blog.ycombinator.com/anu-hariharan-on-network-effects/).</p>

#1 - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram
May 15, 201743 min<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ammonbartram">Ammon Bartram</a> is the cofounder of Triplebyte (YC S15) and Socialcam (YC W12).</p> <p><a href="https://triplebyte.com/">Triplebyte</a> (https://triplebyte.com) connects software engineers with companies that are hiring.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/hiring-engineers-with-ammon-bartram">Read the transcript here</a> (http://blog.ycombinator.com/hiring-engineers-with-ammon-bartram). </p>



