Feb 25, 2015
Eric Migicovsky is the CEO and founder of Pebble Technology, the company behind the Pebble smartwatch.
After incubating his idea for the smartwatch in the Y Combinator program, Eric launched a campaign on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Within two hours of going live the company's initial goal of $100,000 had...
Feb 23, 2015
This episode features Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. Sam was cofounder and CEO of Loopt, which was funded by Y Combinaor in 2005 and acquired by Green Dot in 2012. At Green Dot, he was the CTO and is now on the Board of Directors. Sam also founded Hydrazine Capital. He Studied computer science at Stanford, and...
Feb 4, 2015
A travel-obsessed serial entrepreneur, Sam previously founded and was CEO of DealBase.com, a travel deals search engine, and was CEO of TravelPost.com, a hotel reviews site. SideStep acquired TravelPost.com and Sam stayed on as VP of business development until its fortunate acquisition by Kayak. Today he is CEO of...
Feb 2, 2015
Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested almost 100 consumer internet startups. These include Mint, thinglabs, Groupon, Twitter, Milo, Wildfire, Bit.ly, Fitbit, Blekko, and dozens...