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The Road To Glory After Y Combinator | Marcos Rico Peng

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Marcos Rico Peng

We chat about the AI Wave, the need for what Marcos is building, getting grilled by Michael Seibel, leveraging distribution for his product, and more!

Episode Description

Marcos Rico Peng gained a huge following filming his journey training for the 2024 Paris Olympics while being a software engineer at Linkedin. This experience along with his technical programming skills enabled him to score and interview and get accepted to into the prestigious YCombinator accelerator program. Marcos and his co-founder Harrison are building Palmier (YC S24) an AI-native code repository. We chat about the AI Wave, the need for what Marcos is building, getting grilled by Michael Seibel, leveraging distribution for his product, and more!

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Episode Breakdown

00:50 - Introduction & Marcus’s Background

03:53 - Swimming for the #1 Team in the Nation

07:11 - Balancing LinkedIn and Olympic Training

09:56 - Building a YouTube Following

12:14 - Strategies for Viral YouTube Content

19:42 - Y Combinator & The Michael Seibel Roast

23:36 - Learning from Y Combinator’s Elite Mentors

36:53 - Vision for Palmer and the Path to IPO

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