Recode Decode: Y Combinator's Sam Altman

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kara Swisher talks with Y Combinator president and Reddit board member Sam Altman about the social news site and the challenges of entrepreneurship. Lauren Goode fields questions on the "Internet of Things." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher.
0:07.8	I'm Cara Swisher, co-executive editor of Recode, and you're listening to Recode Decode.
0:13.4	You may know me better as Kim Kardashian's best friend, but in my spare time, I do some
0:18.3	tech reporting, and I also talk a lot about tech.
0:21.7	Every week we bring in someone who's doing something that's worth paying attention to.
0:25.3	This week in the Red Chair, it's Sam Altman, president of Startup Incubator, Y Combinator,
0:30.2	and a board member of Reddit, which has been in the news a lot lately.
0:34.0	Altman is one of Silicon Valley's nerd kings, an investor whose Y Combinator graduates
0:38.8	include companies like Stripe and AirBnB.
0:41.6	He's here today to talk a bit about what's going on at Y Combinator, and also maybe a little
0:46.0	bit about Reddit's recent drama.
0:48.1	Welcome Sam.
0:49.1	Thanks for having me.
0:50.1	Thanks for coming.
0:51.1	So there's so much going on in your life.
0:52.1	Yeah, let's start with Reddit.
0:55.1	Okay.
0:56.1	And then we get into Y Combinator.
0:57.1	Can we only talk for like five minutes about Reddit?
0:59.1	There's so much more interesting stuff.
1:00.1	I know.
1:01.1	Well, it is interesting to people what's going on.
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