Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He’s also the co-editor of Boing Boing.

https://twitter.com/doctorow
https://boingboing.net/

Joe Betts-Lacroix is the CTO of VIUM and an Expert at YC.

https://twitter.com/bettslacroix
https://www.vium.com/

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/

Topics

00:07 - Adversarial interoperability

7:30 - So what should founders do?

13:30 - Copyright

19:30 - Remixing

26:35 - AT&T

29:25 - Firms and state-like duties

31:00 - Medium-term suggestions for founders

39:00 - Conspiracy theories

51:25 - Science fiction and predictions

56:30 - Peak indifference model