Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the winter 2012 batch.   / mwseibel  

In this video Michael comments on his essay Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money? https://blog.ycombinator.com/whydoes...

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon   / craigcannon  

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00:00 Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money

1:00 A team, a product, and an office are all just a means to an end

2:00 If you don’t really deserve money, what is an alternate path to create leverage?

3:45 Breaking even at Justin.tv was a moment of infinite clarity

6:00 Series A program and leverage