Date | Speaker | Topic |
9/23/14 | Sam Altman, President, Y Combinator Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder, Facebook, Cofounder, Asana, Cofounder, Good Ventures |
Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part IWhy to Start a Startup |
9/25/14 | Sam Altman, President, Y Combinator | Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II |
9/30/14 | Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator | Before the Startup |
10/2/14 | Adora Cheung, Founder, Homejoy | Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing |
10/7/14 | Peter Thiel, Founder, Paypal, Founder, Palantir, and Founder, Founders Fund | Competition is For Losers |
10/9/14 | Alex Schultz, VP Growth, Facebook | Growth |
10/14/14 | Kevin Hale, Founder, Wufoo and Partner, Y Combinator | How to Build Products Users Love |
10/16/14 | Walker Williams, Founder, Teespring Justin Kan, Founder, Twitch and Partner, Y Combinator Stanley Tang, Founder, DoorDash |
Doing Things That Don’t ScalePR
How to Get Started |
10/21/14 | Marc Andreessen, Founder, Andreessen Horowitz and Founder, Netscape Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel Parker Conrad, Founder, Zenefits |
How to Raise Money |
10/23/14 | Alfred Lin, Former COO, Zappos and Partner, Sequoia Capital Brian Chesky, Founder, Airbnb |
Culture |
10/28/14 | Patrick Collison, Co-Founder, Stripe John Collison, Co-Founder, Stripe Ben Silbermann, Founder & CEO, Pinterest |
Hiring and Culture, Part II |
10/30/14 | Aaron Levie, Founder, Box | Building for the Enterprise |
11/4/14 | Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock Ventures and Founder, LinkedIn | How To Be A Great Founder |
11/6/14 | Keith Rabois, Partner, Khosla Ventures | How to Operate |
11/11/14 | Ben Horowitz, Founder, Andreessen Horowitz, and Founder, and Opsware | How to Manage |
11/13/14 | Emmett Shear, Founder and CEO, Twitch | How to Run a User Interview |
11/18/14 | Hosain Rahman, Founder, Jawbone | How to Design Hardware Products |
11/20/14 | Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy,Partners, Y Combinator | Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups |
12/2/14 | Tyler Bosmeny, Founder and CEO, Clever Michael Seibel, Partner, Y Combinator Qasar Younis, Dalton Caldwell,Partners, Y Combinator |
Sales and MarketingHow to Talk to Investors
Investor Meeting Roleplaying |
12/4/14 | Sam Altman, President, Y Combinator | Later-Stage Advice |