#153 - Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-LaCroix

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He’s also the co-editor of Boing Boing.
Joe Betts-Lacroix is the CTO of VIUM and an Expert at YC.
Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.
Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
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Topics
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Adversarial interoperability
7:55 - So what should founders do?
13:55 - Copyright
19:55 - Remixing
27:00 - AT&T
29:50 - Firms and state-like duties
31:25 - Medium-term suggestions for founders
39:25 - Conspiracy theories
51:50 - Science fiction and predictions
56:55 - Peak indifference model