Y Combinator is still paranoid (re-run)

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

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While the Equity crew prepares for another Y Combinator Demo Day, we're throwing it back to when Natasha and Alex caught up with current YC Partner and Managing Director of YC Early Stage, Michael Seibel. The main question on the pair's mind was how is YC evolving to meet a changed market? Seibel doesn't often do press -- and neither does YC -- so the interview was used to connect the dots on news from the accelerator, cross check top trends from the 2022 summer batch and ask about some of the biggest critiques people have about the institution. We went a bit long, but figured it was worth it given the way the conversation was going. As always, we'll be back with our weekly roundup on Friday, and don’t forget that Equity is opening this year’s Disrupt. We’ll see you there! For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity’s Simplecast website. Equity drops at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders and more! Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is Alex and today we are bringing you something a little bit different because if you didn't know this is why
0:07.4	Combinators demo day week which means on Wednesday and Thursday the Equity crew is watching the Summer 23
0:13.8	batch present and we're taking lots of notes. So instead of bringing you our
0:17.8	usual interview we have reached back into our archives nearly exactly one
0:21.8	year to when we last spoke with Michael Seibel who is
0:24.8	managing director and group partner at Y-Cominator today. Check out this interview
0:29.1	it's a lot of fun and we are going to have much much more for you on Friday with all of our observations and
0:34.3	learnings from this particular demo day cycle and as a final note Natasha is on this
0:39.7	interview given that it was from a year ago she She has since gone on to the information,
0:43.3	but we love her.
0:44.1	She's part of the Equity family.
0:45.4	Please enjoy this interview,
0:46.5	and we are back on Friday with even more equity. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and
1:04.1	nuance behind the headlines.
1:05.4	I'm Natasha Masqueranas and this is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic,
1:09.8	think about a question, and unpack the rest.
1:12.0	Today we're asking, how is YC evolving to meet a change market and I have
1:16.6	Alex Wilhelm with me fresh off of demo day Apple everything from last week. Alex how are you?
1:22.3	Fired up ready to go. I mean I was everything from last week. Alex, how are you?
1:22.5	Fire it up, ready to go.
1:24.4	I mean, I was looking forward to this for days
1:26.6	because it's kind of the next point of what we care about.
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