Andrew: Hey there, Freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com. It is, of course, home of the ambitious upstart.
My guest for this interview is Sam Altman. He is the president of YC Group, which oversees Y Combinator, the seed investment firm that has funded 1,500 startups with a combined value of $80 billion. By the way, you can still apply for entry. You can still apply for funding from Y Combinator. Just go to YCombinator.com. Before he became the president of the YC Group, Sam founded Loopt, a location-based software company.
My goal for this interview is to hear the story of how he created Loopt, which he reportedly sold for $43 million. I want to understand what it was like when he was a founder himself. I want to understand what he does to help companies grow as the head of YC Group and I want to hear about how he works. I’ve talked to people who have actually worked for him who say that this guy is just so...