Today we have Michael Seibel current full time partner at Y combinatory and cofounder and former CEO of Twitch. A graduate of Yale University with a bachelors degree in political science, Michael first gained success in the tech world with his company Justin.tv which later became Twitch Interactive that sold to Amazon for $970 million dollars. While CEO of Socialcam, the startup participated in Y Combinator raising capital from angel investors and eventually selling to Autodesk Inc for $60 million dollars. Today Michael enjoys advising startups as a partner at Y combinator and helping to create the next leaders of technology.  

Michael Seibel is interviewed in Palo Alto by Startup Grind CEO and Silicon Valley chapter director Derek Anderson.  

This interview provides insightful information on how the speed in which you launch a startup can vastly affect the success of your business. As Michael says, about 90% of what you think of your business is wrong and about 10% is right, thus the sooner you can get your business out there to users the faster you will grow that 10% and the faster they will start building things they like, instead of what you think they may like. He explains how Y combinatory aims to create a supportive yet high pressure environment to make startups more successful and that Y combinator doesn’t want their investment to be the deciding factor in whether you create your startup or not, they want your startups creation to feel inevitable.

Today we have the founder of AOL Steve Case.

Steve Case is one of America’s most renowned entrepreneurs and basically brought the internet into millions of american homes. 

While he was CEO of America Online, AOL was the world’s most valuable internet company, first to go public, and he oversaw the merger that created AOL Time Warner Inc. 

Today Steve serves as chairman and CEO of Revolution a Venture Capitalist firm based in DC and is active on Capitol Hill promoting legislation to help grow every part of the US into an entrepreneurial ecosystem. 

Steve said he is often influenced by a African proverb which says “if you want to go quickly you must go alone, if you want to go far you must go together”. 

Thus, in his interview, Steve discusses how his entrepreneurial career and the growth of AOL were influenced by partnerships and how other entrepreneurs can benefit from partnerships as well. 

Steve Case was interviewed at Startup Grind’s global event by the director of Google for Entrepreneurs Mary Grove.

Today we have the 72nd Governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe. He is a former banker, real estate developer, hotel owner, homebuilder, and internet Venture capitalist.  McAuliffe cofounded many businesses including Federal City National Bank, American Pioneer Savings Bank, Global Crossing, and GreenTech Automotive.

He previously served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 where during his tenure, the DNC raised $578 million earning his title of “best fundraiser ever” by Al Gore.

Terry McAuliffe is interviewed in Washington DC by Startup Grind COO and DC chapter director Brian Park.

This awesome interview provides information on the economic development and innovative initiatives going on in Virginia to help grow it into a hub for technology. 

Today we have Mary Grove who is the Director of Google for Entrepreneurs. Google for Entrepreneurs is really leading the effort to support startups and entrepreneurs in more than 120 countries around the world. 

Mary is passionate about building community and has worked with groups of entrepreneurs in Pakistan, Iraq, Gaza, and Afghanistan, and previously led numerous international partnerships for Google. Mary earned her BA and MA from Stanford University and sits on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. She serves on the Board of UP Global and is the cofounder of Silicon North Stars. 

Mary Grove is interviewed in San Francisco by Startup Grind CEO Derek Anderson.  

This interview focused on how Google for Entrepreneurs is expanding startups to bring communities together through its various aspects such as its campuses across the globe, its demo days, its partnerships and many more. 

Today we have one of my favorite startup grind talks even though it’s less technically focused than some of our others. It’s an interview with Chris Johnson the inventor of the rapid ramen cooker and ceo of the rapid brands group which has now gone on to create several more products and ship millions and millions of units in thousands of stores across the country. Chris and is product were also featured on Shark tank in which he was able to get Mark cuban to come back in on a deal which at the time was a shark tank first. 

Chris is an incredibly motivated and persistent entrepreneur and i learned a lot listening to him. Hope you will to. Here’s the inventor of the rapid ramen interview in Sacramento by chapter director rich foreman. 

Today we have Jeff Cruttenden Co-Founder and COO of the investing app Acorns. While earning his degree in mathematics from lewis and clark college, Jeff was perplexed by how few college students knew how to invest and more importantly how few had the funds to do so Jeff and his dad Walter Cruttenden, an investment banker founded Acorns in attempt to solve both of these problems. Like an acorn grows into an oak tree, you can see how spare change adds up overtime into a sizeable investment. Jeff is interviewed by Startup Grind's Orange County chapter co-director Dru Blake. 

Today we have Charles Hudson partner at SofttechVC. Charles has multiple degrees from stanford in business, economics, and spanish. He spent a fews years investing in companies for the Central Intelligence Agency (which is probably one of the coolest things ever). After that he founded an android based mobile games company and now leads mobile and games investing for Softtech.

Charles is interviewed in silicon valley by Startup Grinds former LA chapter director Sam Osborne. 

 This is an awesome interview for any founder but especially those looking at any type of mobile first app. 

Hope you learn a lot and enjoy lets listen in. 

Hey there and welcome to monday’s episode of the startup grind podcast. Today we have an awesome interview between sequoia partner brian schreier and Marco Zappacosta the founder and ceo of thumbtack.

Thumbtack has been taking the “have other people do stuff for you” space by storm recently with hundreds of millions raised from partners like Sequoia capital and Google Capital. 

Today we have a really interesting chat with Reshma Saujani the founder of the tech initiative girls who code. Reshma is a former lawyer and politican. Previously serving as the deputy public advocate at the office of the new york city public advocate. 

Girls who code is an organization offerering 100% free coding education to high school aged girls. it’s work has been praised by the white house, top tech companies, oprah and many more prestigious stakeholder groups. 

Reshma is interviewed by startup grind’s new york city chapter director peter crysdale. 

Today we have an interview with one of the most respected growth hackers around. Justin Mares, is most recently the co-author of the book traction, along with fellow startup grind speaker and duck duck go search engine founder gabriel weinberg. Prior to penning traction mares was the DRO at exceptional cloud services and before that; founder of roommate fit. 

Justin speaks with our Startup Grind Ottawa director Franco Variiano about his entrepreneurial journey and the most important thing founders are oddly not thinking enough about