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I'm reminded every time I watch Bloomberg I'm reminded just how high quality they are, and how intelligent their anchors are relative to any other large media corp.

Additionally, Paul, thanks for being frank and great. It makes me so happy to see you as the face of not only YC, but increasingly of tech startups in general. When I get around to implementing a good idea, I've got you to look to not only for interesting me in programming through Lisp, startups through YC, but also for increasingly the visibility and viability of tech startups.

Definitely worth watching all 14 minutes.

EDIT: Also, still a little bitter over "the real money's in hotel search"… dzoblin's & my Summer '11 (I think) YC application was that. Though admittedly not far along, and the idea was still in development. still ;)

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No kidding. I have to admit when I saw Emily Chang give her opening spiel, having never heard of her or Bloomberg, my mind immediately put her in the "vapid TV personality" bucket. But over the next minute or two I realized that was a complete mistake, and was extremely impressed with how sharp she was.

I don't even think I was aware of how low my expectations of TV anchors are.

I felt the EXACT same way. She really did a great job.

I've been driving 1-2h/day recently, and Bloomberg on satellite radio is one of the better parts of that. (BBC is nice too, and sometimes CNBC, but CNBC's quality varies greatly).

I listen to Bloomberg radio[1] most days at work. Lots of insightful interviews and analysis of business, economics, politics, and current events.

[1]http://tunein.com/tuner/?StationId=17075&;

The improve lives through startups meme is a valuable idea, but finding tunein.com has improved my life in a small but delightful way.

I like radio because it is random and unexpected - to me. I don't have to set a playlist of any sort or even own the rights to play the song.

I used to listen to Pandora mainly for that randomly played music. I rarely even vote on Pandora and hate when it asks me to. Now that Pandora has listening caps, I barely use it.

A guy at worked pointed me to tune-in, and it is now my site of choice for online music/radio/whatever.

At least one of the taglines was a huge mis-characterization of what was actually said, though.

"Paul Graham: Don't look at groupon's numbers"

That's not what he said at all. He said that HE wouldn't, and that he'd bet on Andrew Mason because he knows him to be a smart guy (using PG's definition of smart). It wasn't giving advice except perhaps in the general sense of "bet on good people."

Yeah but Groupon is not on the "bet" level and IPOs are different that seed or series-A funding.

Yeah that's the whole point. He's not giving advice at all, he's just talking about his general approach to investment. It was Bloomberg that took the comment turned it into implicit commentary about the IPO, which was clearly not his intent.

We'll show pg & co. what they missed out on! :-)

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