Lenny’s Podcast95 min
The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon
Jessica Livingston · Jun 27, 2024
Key learnings
- Watch how co-founders interact: whether they get along, finish each other's sentences, or let one partner dominate, since…
- Treat defensiveness under questioning as a red flag; strong founders respond with "here's what I figured out" and engage in a…
- Look for earnestness: founders who admit when they don't know an answer and who have a real personal connection to the problem…