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How to Build Your Board | Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin

by Y Combinator6/15/2017

Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, talks through how he built his board of directors, and shares lessons-learned.

Office Hours with Ali Rowghani

by Y Combinator6/14/2017

Ali Rowghani is CEO of Y Combinator Continuity, where he invests in and advises growth-stage startups. Ali directly contributed to the growth of two great companies — at Twitter, as CFO then COO, and at Pixar as CFO and SVP of Strategic Planning.

Scaling Product at Airbnb with Joe Gebbia and Reid Hoffman

by Y Combinator6/6/2017

Co-founder of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia, sits down with Reid Hoffman to talk about scaling the product for Airbnb, and how they thought about designing the full chain of the travel experience (not just the accommodations element).

Scaling Culture with Jason Kilar, former Hulu CEO

by Y Combinator6/1/2017

Jason Kilar is the former CEO of Hulu and Vessel, and an early executive at Amazon. He joined us at The Scaleup Offsite to talk about establishing and scaling a company’s culture.

Anu Hariharan on Network Effects

by Y Combinator2/27/2017

Anu Hariharan is a Partner at Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund. She was previously a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

GitLab's Secret to Managing 160 Employees in 160 Locations

by Y Combinator2/9/2017

Ali Rowghani, head of YC Continuity, talks to GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij (W15) about how GitLab has built a completely distributed company with 160 people (and growing). We filmed this conversation at GitLab’s SF headquarters, where Sid is the only local employee. Sid’s biggest tip for success in scaling a distributed company: write everything down.