Dalton + Michael
Confidence 0.75 · 3 sources · last confirmed 2026-09-28
A conversation show on YouTube hosted by Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel, both longtime Y Combinator partners. Seibel co-founded Justin.tv and Twitch; Caldwell founded imeem and App.net. Episodes are unscripted two-person discussions of startup advice drawn from YC office hours, usually framed around founder mistakes. The show is sponsored by Standard Capital, the hosts’ own firm.
The channel’s author: value is written Dalton + Michael on source pages, following the video convention that the channel is the author. This page uses the spelled-out filename to keep the slug safe. Michael Seibel has no entity page yet because he appears only as a presenter, never as a frontmatter author.
Sources under this author
- How Great Founders Approach Sales (Feb 2026): good sales as good problem-solving; why a hired VP of Sales can’t find the sales approach from scratch; “a deep integration is a deep moat.” Feeds founder-led-sales.
- Low Ambition is Killing Your Startup (Aug 2026): low ambition as the “secret killer” of venture-backed startups; ambition decides how many people care, but has to be grounded in a credible, simple pitch; AI has lowered ambition (“the 17th AI SDR”); the “meta tarpit”.
- How to Find Consumer Startup Ideas (Aug 2026): give everyone the premium experience the wealthy have; AI as personalisation, not a 95%-as-good chatbot. Feeds automation-vs-augmentation.
Related entities
- Dalton Caldwell (co-host), Y Combinator (where both hosts were partners), Lenny’s Podcast (Caldwell’s earlier long-form appearance).