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The Social Radars

Jessica Livingston
The Social Radars
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    Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel: Silicon Valley Bank Crisis

    28/04/2026 | 1h 22 mins.
    In today's Social Radars episode we talk to Ron Conway about one of the most momentous events in recent Silicon Valley history, the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, and the frantic behind-the-scenes efforts that prevented it, with just hours to spare, from triggering a Depression-style financial panic.
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    Justin Kan, Cofounder, Twitch

    15/04/2026 | 1h 5 mins.
    In this episode of The Social Radars, we talk to Justin Kan, who has spent his whole adult life in startups, much of it around YC in some way. We've funded him three times, the first time in the very first batch, and he's been a YC partner too. So Justin has seen it all, and because he's so candid, he tells it all too.
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    Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator

    19/03/2026 | 1h 2 mins.
    Paul Graham is back in the latest episode of The Social Radars. This time we focus on what was going on behind the scenes at Y Combinator back in the early years. If you really want to understand what YC is like and what made it that way, this is the episode for you.
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    Peter Reinhardt, CEO & co-founder, Charm Industrial; CEO & co-founder, Segment

    03/03/2026 | 1h 7 mins.
    In the latest episode of The Social Radars, we talk to Peter Reinhardt, who has the distinction of having started two iconic companies that are completely different from one another: Segment, which does web analytics, and Charm Industrial, which catches CO2 before it can return to the atmosphere and buries it in the ground.
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    Tom Blomfield, Partner, Y Combinator; Co-Founder, Monzo

    17/02/2026 | 1h 9 mins.
    In today's episode of The Social Radars, we talk to Tom Blomfield, founder and original CEO of the transformative British fintech startup Monzo, and now a YC partner. The striking thing about this interview is simply how much has happened to him. Tom has spent his entire working life in startups and it has been a remarkably wild ride even by startup standards.

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About 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.
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