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Alyssa Ravasio loves using ‘coyote trickster energy’ to get more people to put down their technology. Her camping marketplace, Hipcamp, has grown into the largest source for booking campsites on public and private land. She talks with host Jeff Berman about scaling the company, l ...  Show more

Prediction markets incentivize truth. Everything else incentivizes clickbait. That's the core argument Luana Lopes Lara makes for Kalshi — the prediction market platform she co-founded that has gone from $5 billion to $22 billion in valuation in under a year, and is now being sue ...  Show more

Life and business are unpredictable. We often base our expectations of the future on past experiences, which can limit our perspective and hinder our progress. Today, we'll explore the critical shifts in mindset necessary to overcome these barriers. Learn from the journey of a fe ...  Show more

Many startups fail because they run out of money. So how should you think about how to spend the money you raise?

In this episode of Office Hours, YC General Partners Brad Flora, Pete Koomen, Nicolas Dessaigne, and Gustaf Alströmer discuss how to spend respons ...

Episode 96: Most startups and their founders don’t spend their money well, often using it as a crutch for a bad product or a misguided tool for growing their business too quickly. Today, I’m going to read essays from Elad Gil, a successful entrepreneur and arguably the greatest a ...  Show more

Negotiations can be tricky, with investors typically digging into the weeds of every tiny facet of a business, from sales traction to overhead costs to team member qualifications. But this week, our board asked some unexpected questions that rattled contestants down to their core ...  Show more