Jessica Livingston's guest appearances

Jessica Livingston

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Startup School Radio

Entrepreneur Network Podcast

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

Paully

Y Combinator

Audioknot — Curated Audio Feed for Entrepreneurs

Business of Software Podcast

FounderLine

How Success Happens

QuickRead Podcast - Free book summaries

In Beta: Lessons from Leaders in Tech

Paul Graham Essays (Audio)

Photo Tea With Anissa D.

Jason Fried

Mark Cuban

Melody McCloskey

Seth Godin

Ryan Hoover

Thomas Tull

Pat Flynn

Sam Altman

Gary Vaynerchuk

Reid Hoffman

Guy Kawasaki

Kleiner Perkins

Marco Zappacosta

Paul English

Toni Ko

OwlTail

Jessica Livingston is a co-founder and partner at Y Combinator. Y Combinator (YC) is a startup fund and program. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 3,000 companies including Airbnb, DoorDash, Stripe, Instacart, Dropbox, and Coinbase. The combined valuation of YC companies is approaching $1T. Y Combinator was the first startup accelerator, and continues to lead the space with programs and resources that support founders throughout the life of their company.

Jessica Livingston, Co-Founder of Y Combinator, on Putting Entrepreneurs First

 Jessica Livingston is a co-founder and partner at Y Combinator. Y Combinator (YC) is a startup fund and program. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 3,000 companies including Airbnb, DoorDash, Stripe, Instacart, Dropbox, and Coinbase. The combined valuation of YC companies is approaching $1T. Y Combinator was the first startup accelerator, and continues to lead the space with programs and resources that support founders throughout the life of their company.

Jessica Livingston is a co-founder and partner at Y Combinator. Y Combinator (YC) is a startup fund and program. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 3,000 companies including Airbnb, DoorDash, Stripe, Instacart, Dropbox, and Coinbase. The combined valuation of YC companies is approaching $1T. Y Combinator was the first startup accelerator, and continues to lead the space with programs and resources that support founders throughout the life of their company.

In this talk Jessica Livingston - author of Founders at work - talks about the many lessons she learned from her interviews with the likes of Paul Graham, Steve Wozniak, Mitch Kapor and Joel Spolsky to name but a few.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-of-software/message

In this talk Jessica Livingston - author of Founders at work - talks about the many lessons she learned from her interviews with the likes of Paul Graham, Steve Wozniak, Mitch Kapor and Joel Spolsky to name but a few.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-of-software/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-of-software/message</a>

Ep86 Founders at Work (with Jessica Livingston)

Audio version of Jessica Livingston's Startups: The Very Beginning post. You can find the original text at https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/startups-the-very-beginning. You can find the author on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jesslivingston.

Audio version of Jessica Livingston's Startups: The Very Beginning post. You can find the original text at <a href="https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/startups-the-very-beginning" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/startups-the-very-beginning</a>. You can find the author on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/jesslivingston" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/jesslivingston</a>.

#6 - Jessica Livingston - Startups: The Very Beginning

Founders at Work (2007) is a behind-the-scenes exploration at what went on in the early days of the United States’ 30 most successful startups. Telling their stories in the founders’ own words, Jessica Livingston explores the triumphs and tribulations which characterized the early days of companies like Hotmail and Blogger.com to chart their journey from fledgling startup to global corporations. Do you want more free audiobook summaries like this? Download our app for free at QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. DISCLAIMER: This book summary is meant as a preview and not a replacement for the original book. If you like this summary please consider purchasing the original book to get the full experience as the original author intended it to be. If you are the original author of any book on QuickRead and would like us to remove it, please contact us at hello@quickread.com

Founders at Work (2007) is a behind-the-scenes exploration at what went on in the early days of the United States’ 30 most successful startups. Telling their stories in the founders’ own words, Jessica Livingston explores the triumphs and tribulations which characterized the early days of companies like Hotmail and <a href="http://Blogger.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blogger.com</a> to chart their journey from fledgling startup to global corporations. Do you want more free audiobook summaries like this? Download our app for free at <a href="http://QuickRead.com/App" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">QuickRead.com/App</a> and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. DISCLAIMER: This book summary is meant as a preview and not a replacement for the original book. If you like this summary please consider purchasing the original book to get the full experience as the original author intended it to be. If you are the original author of any book on QuickRead and would like us to remove it, please contact us at hello@quickread.com

Summary of Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston | Free Audiobook

Diane Greene

Diane Greene is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware.Jessica Livingston is cofounder of YC.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Greene" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Diane Greene</a> is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware.<a href="https://twitter.com/jesslivingston" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jessica Livingston</a> is cofounder of YC.

#23 - VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference

Sam Altman interviews Jessica Livingston for a series called How To Build The Future, which you can watch on YC’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/ycombinator. Read the transcript here: https://blog.ycombinator.com/jessica-livingston-on-htfbt/

<a href="https://twitter.com/sama" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sam Altman</a> interviews <a href="https://twitter.com/jesslivingston" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jessica Livingston</a> for a series called How To Build The Future, which you can watch on YC’s YouTube channel: <a href="https://youtube.com/ycombinator" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/ycombinator</a>. Read the transcript here: <a href="https://blog.ycombinator.com/jessica-livingston-on-htfbt/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.ycombinator.com/jessica-livingston-on-htfbt/</a>

#7 - Jessica Livingston on How to Build the Future

Paul Graham

Harj Taggar

Harj Taggar is the Founder &amp; CEO @ Triplebyte, the startup that is changing the world of engineering recruitment by building a new kind of interview that evaluates tech skills, not credentials. They have raised from some of our favourite seed investors and all past guests on the show including Felicis Ventures, SV Angel and Initialized Capital. As for Harj, prior to Triplebyte, he was the first partner brought in at Y Combinator since its founding, where he remained as a Partner for 4 years. Before that he was a YC founder, co-founding Auctomatic which was acquired by Livecurrent Media.   In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Harj made his way from the UK to YC's first Partner to now founding Triplebyte? 2.) Question from Garry Tan: What was the most surprising thing when Harj first became a Partner @ YC? What were Harj's biggest learnings from working with Paul Graham and Jessica Livingstone in the early days? 3.) Remaining in those very early stages, from Harj's experience seeing so many companies pass through YC, what do startups look like at those very early stages? How does Harj recommend finding co-founders? Test and iterate on ideas? Work towards product market fit? What does product market fit look like to Harj? 4.) How should we approach hiring as an early stage startup? What are the signs of great hires? What does the optimal interview process look like? How can we optimize the on boarding process? 5.) What should founders look for in VCs and vice versa? What were Harj's learnings on how to be a great seed stage investor from his time with Garry &amp; Alexis @ Initialized?? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Harj’s Fave Book: Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman As always you can follow  Harry,  The Twenty Minute VC, Harj on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. The Simba Hybrid. The most advanced mattress in the world. With a unique combination of two thousand five hundred conical pocket springs and responsive memory foam, it offers the perfect support for two people. A mattress that responds to you and your partner’s sleeping patterns. Delivered free, with a one hundred night sleep trial, free returns and a ten year guarantee. Start your free trial at simbasleep.com Cirrus Insight is a plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook.  It automatically updates activities in Salesforce so you don’t have to.  It was named #41 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies, and it has more than 1,700 customer reviews on the Salesforce AppExchange. Today, it serves over 150,000 sales people across 5,000 organizations using Gmail, Outlook, iPhone, iPad, and Android. Cirrus Insight is perfect for sales, support, and success teams who want to save time, schedule 3x more appointments, track email opens and much more with Salesforce information at their fingertips in the inbox. www.cirrusinsight.com/20VC

<a href="https://twitter.com/Harjeet" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harj Taggar</a> is the Founder &amp; CEO @ <a href="https://triplebyte.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Triplebyte</a>, the startup that is changing the world of engineering recruitment by building a new kind of interview that evaluates tech skills, not credentials. They have raised from some of our favourite seed investors and all past guests on the show including Felicis Ventures, SV Angel and Initialized Capital. As for Harj, prior to Triplebyte, he was the first partner brought in at Y Combinator since its founding, where he remained as a Partner for 4 years. Before that he was a YC founder, co-founding Auctomatic which was acquired by Livecurrent Media. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Harj made his way from the UK to YC's first Partner to now founding Triplebyte? 2.) Question from Garry Tan: What was the most surprising thing when Harj first became a Partner @ YC? What were Harj's biggest learnings from working with Paul Graham and Jessica Livingstone in the early days? 3.) Remaining in those very early stages, from Harj's experience seeing so many companies pass through YC, what do startups look like at those very early stages? How does Harj recommend finding co-founders? Test and iterate on ideas? Work towards product market fit? What does product market fit look like to Harj? 4.) How should we approach hiring as an early stage startup? What are the signs of great hires? What does the optimal interview process look like? How can we optimize the on boarding process? 5.) What should founders look for in VCs and vice versa? What were Harj's learnings on how to be a great seed stage investor from his time with Garry &amp; Alexis @ Initialized?? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Harj’s Fave Book: <a href="http://amzn.to/2jQKTeQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman</a> As always you can follow <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CCAQFjAAahUKEwjK5ovknZDJAhWGWRQKHTOwD6E&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fharrystebbings%3Flang%3Den-gb&amp;usg=AFQjCNH6KlmFwsIYJkOKRioQuLqGOR0U0w&amp;sig2=0SA_UtadAekFAQGpTKS-eA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Harry</a>, <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CB8QFjAAahUKEwipwoT4nZDJAhWK1hQKHXuECAc&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ftwentyminutevc%3Flang%3Den-gb&amp;usg=AFQjCNHcygppyqTNaiuOUOohQIk-Qg-1jQ&amp;sig2=kQcaARp7XfhSS_LKHOr93Q&amp;bvm=bv.107467506,d.d24" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Twenty Minute VC</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Harjeet" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harj</a> on Twitter here! <a href="https://www.snapchat.com/add/hstebbings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.</a> The Simba Hybrid. The most advanced mattress in the world. With a unique combination of two thousand five hundred conical pocket springs and responsive memory foam, it offers the perfect support for two people. A mattress that responds to you and your partner’s sleeping patterns. Delivered free, with a one hundred night sleep trial, free returns and a ten year guarantee. Start your free trial at <a href="http://simbasleep.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">simbasleep.com</a> Cirrus Insight is a plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook.  It automatically updates activities in Salesforce so you don’t have to.  It was named #41 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies, and it has more than 1,700 customer reviews on the Salesforce AppExchange. Today, it serves over 150,000 sales people across 5,000 organizations using Gmail, Outlook, iPhone, iPad, and Android. Cirrus Insight is perfect for sales, support, and success teams who want to save time, schedule 3x more appointments, track email opens and much more with Salesforce information at their fingertips in the inbox. <a href="http://www.cirrusinsight.com/20VC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.cirrusinsight.com/20VC</a>

20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte 

Dubbed "the world's most powerful startup incubator" by Fast Company, Y Combinator (YC) has been plucking startups from garages, dorm rooms, coffee shops, and assorted founder hangouts for over a decade.With a combined valuation of more than $65 billion among its alumni, a list that reads like a who’s who of startup fame—think AirBNB, Reddit, Dropbox, Instacart, Scribd, Weebly—YC has become a Silicon Valley institution. It is described as an elite founders boot camp, a place where ideas are incubated, annihilated, refined, and polished for a period of three months, ready to be served up to a bevy of hungry investors.As co-founder of this entrepreneurial playground, Jessica Livingston has seen it all: the tears, the tantrums, and the triumphs, while getting a bird’s eye view of some of the startup world’s biggest success stories.In this interview you will learn: How to close the gap between a failed startup and a wildly successful one What Y Combinator is looking for when they take on new startups The exact process that Y Combinator puts startups through in order to ensure success The key traits and qualities shared by every successful founder What signs to look out for that your startup may be doomed &amp; much more!

Dubbed "the world's most powerful startup incubator" by Fast Company, Y Combinator (YC) has been plucking startups from garages, dorm rooms, coffee shops, and assorted founder hangouts for over a decade.With a combined valuation of more than $65 billion among its alumni, a list that reads like a who’s who of startup fame—think AirBNB, Reddit, Dropbox, Instacart, Scribd, Weebly—YC has become a Silicon Valley institution. It is described as an elite founders boot camp, a place where ideas are incubated, annihilated, refined, and polished for a period of three months, ready to be served up to a bevy of hungry investors.As co-founder of this entrepreneurial playground, Jessica Livingston has seen it all: the tears, the tantrums, and the triumphs, while getting a bird’s eye view of some of the startup world’s biggest success stories.In this interview you will learn:<ul> <li>How to close the gap between a failed startup and a wildly successful one</li> <li>What Y Combinator is looking for when they take on new startups</li> <li>The exact process that Y Combinator puts startups through in order to ensure success</li> <li>The key traits and qualities shared by every successful founder</li> <li>What signs to look out for that your startup may be doomed</li> <li>&amp; much more!</li></ul>

95: What Makes or Breaks a Startup with Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator

Jessica Livingston, partner at Y Combinator.  Source: http://podfm.ru/goto/376c01b

Jessica Livingston, partner at Y Combinator. Source: <a href="http://podfm.ru/goto/376c01b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://podfm.ru/goto/376c01b</a>