it's about keeping us from having todd akins and paul br n brouns.e went out and said todd akin was right. e to avoid situations like that. if you take a look at the republican candidates, whether it's tom cotton in ark a, who all of the groups are supporting, or dan sullivan or bill cassidy in louisiana, or tom tillis in north carolina, wb have a very good cast of ra characters that are running, and much better than we had in 2010. >> wait, wait, i just want to bring judy in because we have less than a minute left. is mr. rove involved in eracial exub rnls? >> the one thing it would not be a republican election where thee sweep the seats is like the last two off-year elections, '06 andd 2010, the republican brand name is unpopular out there. there's a wall street journal poll out this week, republicanse 26 to 45 negative. that's seven or eight points worse than it was inti decemberp it doesn't mean that's positive, but it's not a good sign.t >> it's not reflected in the head to head numbers. >> i'm glad we're not paying that much attention to novemb

paul broun is stepping away come in taking over as the new president is sam altman.been with them since the first start of class. i talk to him about what it is life to be in charge of the organization that launched him. >> i believe this is an important institution for startups. it is really important to me. >> what is your role going forward? >> paul is going to advise the startups. that is what he did when it was small. there were only eight companies in the whole batch. i will handle running and organizing our operation and i will make decisions that run day-to-day. it takes all of your mental cycles. paul will advise startups. >> you have invested in 630 startups. they are all in the yc network. >> we are with them from the very beginning. we tend to have extremely close relationships with the startups that we fund. even five or nine years after, we still help them. >> why do you think paul pick you? >> i do have the state of yc in my head. all of our partners are good. >> he thinks very highly of you in particular. he put you on a list of the five most interest

so, for example, when they came to broun in the -- to britain in the 19th century or to the united states in the 19th and 20th centuries, they were functioning in societies that were already highly commercial. so that they were one group of people involved in commerce among others. in other words, they can't be successful without being particularly salient or noticeable. but in many areas of, say, eastern europe in societies where most people were either peasants or you had a small layer of land-owning aristocrats where neither group was oriented towards commerce, in those societies jews were often the commercial class. and they, and in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries with the development of ethnic nationalism particularly in those areas and the desire of more people from peasant backgrounds and so on to move into these commercial and professional positions that were largely occupied by jews, in those societies jewish success was more salient. they stuck out more. and tear success was more -- their success was more resented. and that was an important factor in understanding the