Jessica Livingston · Business

The Social Radars

Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy are The Social Radars. Carolynn and Jessica have been working together to help thousands of startups at Y Combinator for almost 20 years. Come be a fly on the wall as they talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.

Episodes

This podcast episode interviews Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, focusing on his career journey from his early days at Y Combinator (YC) to his current role. The hosts, who have known Altman for years, discuss his experiences at YC, including his involvement in early startups and his time as YC president. The conversation ...

Eric Migicovsky, Founder, Pebble & Beeper

26 Feb 2025

1h 4m

Alexandr Wang, Founder & CEO of Scale

12 Feb 2025

1h 1m

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In this episode of The Social Radars, Jessica Livingston and Carolyn Levy interview Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of Scale AI. Wang discusses his childhood in Los Alamos, his early interest in programming, and his decision to take a gap year to work at Quora. He recounts his time at MIT, where he realized the impo...

Harj Taggar, Partner, Y Combinator

29 Jan 2025

1h 25m

Gusto Co-Founders: Josh Reeves, Edward Kim & Tomer London

15 Jan 2025

1h 13m

Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel (Part 2)

02 Jan 2025

1h 33m

Surbhi Sarna, Founder of nVision Medical

18 Dec 2024

1h 4m

Tyler Shultz, Theranos Whistleblower (Part 2)

04 Dec 2024

1h 32m

Tyler Shultz, Theranos Whistleblower (Part 1)

27 Nov 2024

1h 33m

Replit Co-Founders, Amjad Masad & Haya Odeh

14 Aug 2024

1h 4m

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In this episode of The Social Radars, Jessica Livingston and Carolyn Levy interview Haya Odeh and Amjad Masad, the founders of Replit, a platform aimed at making programming more accessible. Amjad discusses the initial inspiration for Replit, stemming from the challenges of starting programming due to complex software ...