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I am very happy that there's a transcript. But I just spent two minutes trying to figure out how to cut and paste it into a textfile (Scribd won't let me download it without signing up).

My request to YC is to publish transcripts like this as text.

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Hi there. That certainly is inconvenient!

Here's a link to the transcript in RTF, and we will definitely note it for future posts: https://goo.gl/kaMMwv

Heh, now it's asking me to sign up to Dropbox.

Thanks for noting my request, and consider just including the text in the body of the page. It will blow people's minds.

Ah, shoot. I forgot that happens there too (at least you can close that popup and get back to the content :) )

And definitely noted!

I didn't notice it at first, but there was a link at the bottom of the popup for me that said "No thanks, continue to download." Clicking it triggered the download.

How do you get transcripts done? In house,outsourced to a transcription service,voice recognition software?

And it's a shorted goo.gl url, that also could expire or be removed in the future.

What's indeed against plain text in the body? It's more easy, it will always be readable. And what about accessibility? Or archiving the content?

utility delta X users who hate PDFs/Scribd = a large integral .

I just want to read the whole text without signing up for some stupid app. Why oh why is this so hard in 2016?

Agreed, it's really excessive to take simple text content and trap it within a PDF that's then trapped inside Scribd, which requires a Scribd account and login to download.

Scribd is a YC company. What you're experiencing is called "growth hacking".

When i stumble upon it from time to time, scribd is the strange thing that wants to stand between me and information. This is very annoying.

I built this thing if you want to follow along. Unfortunately no video, but at least you can copy the text:

https://jotengine.com/t/elon

Wow you built something I always wished existed... going to check this out later, thank you much.

I was able to copy and paste it just fine. See below.

http://pastebin.com/1v0CaTwF

Me too. Click, select all, copy, switch to favorite text editor, paste. No signup/login prompt, and no problem. Maybe they fixed it?

I had the added annoying step of ctrl-f'ing for "Interviewer" and "Elon" and replacing them with "<return> Interviewer" and "<return> Elon", but I think that has more to do with how crappy Windows 10's clipboard is than Scribd.

My guess is that JavaScript blocking interferes with Scribd.

While we're at it, these are great interviews and I'm glad they're being created and published, and I'd appreciate if the series was available as a podcast... I only noticed this new interview because I happened to be on HN right now.

I searched on my podcast app, and found an RSS feed that has the three existing episodes. Who would have known that YC has a SoundCloud account?

https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:24682936...

Great, works here, thanks! (In case anyone wants the SC profile link: https://soundcloud.com/ycombinator)

Awesome, thanks! Just added the URL to my iPhone podcast app.

Podcasts are also great because they let you save something now and listen to it later (in the car, doing chores, etc.). I'm really interested in listening to this, but by tomorrow when I'm doing something that is amenable to listening in the background I'll probably have forgotten it exists. If I could add "How to Build the Future" to a listening queue I'd certainly be more likely to get around to it!

You should check out https://narro.co for turning most anything into a personal podcast.

> I'd appreciate if the series was available as a podcast

It's available on SoundCloud.

https://soundcloud.com/ycombinator

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