- cofounders have to get along well with each other. each is expert in their domain & don't mess with others' - focus on the most important thing, out of 10k things you could do - smart < determined - make a small number of people extremely happy & grow from that
54:20 You are asking such an obsessed entrepreneur if he's going to do another startup again... and he's answering "No... never!". Guess what's going to happen in a few years... :D
A shard, in this context, is a subset of (all of yc's) startups owned by a single yc founder (as opposed to all founders being responsible for all startups).
ok ok says it two comments below don't all pile on here (having now googled) damn thats a god damn shame a suicide from a guy with an entrepreneurial track record like that
why does this guy say "hummmm....every 5 words?...I can't get passed it. He has some great info, but I have to admit its really annoying... anybody notice that?
Those. Ads. Seriously annoying.
Touching on Aaron Swartz until it was interrupted by an add for a lawyer. That was great.
yeah totally
totally pissed.... I was like 'Really?'
So uncultured, literally disrespecful because there was a Aaron's Law after his name
Thank you so much
I’m so sorry for Aaron Swarts and his family . I wish someone told him to keep fighting and that wasn’t so bad.
- cofounders have to get along well with each other. each is expert in their domain & don't mess with others'
- focus on the most important thing, out of 10k things you could do
- smart < determined
- make a small number of people extremely happy & grow from that
200 units of Apple 1 was produced. 25 of those was never sold and destroyed.
Start at 3:00
Paul knows what his talking,his advices are relatable !
54:20
You are asking such an obsessed entrepreneur if he's going to do another startup again... and he's answering "No... never!".
Guess what's going to happen in a few years... :D
Hey guys, my question is a little out of topic), but what's the song on 1:45?
The Mummy is helluva movie
hum
What was that apple did that put him off?
When are people going to realize Apple is like every other corporation that places it's own self interest over the interest of every thing else.
Hummm! Brilliant!
Paul Gra um..
Peter Thiel is the Um.. peror
Seminal. As an MBA this is brilliant.
im sorry you had to go through that
@@erlichbachman663 The Y Combinator application expérience was aweful. Never again. A complete waste of my time. I was never even contacted by YC.
31:34 what does "sharded" mean??
A shard, in this context, is a subset of (all of yc's) startups owned by a single yc founder (as opposed to all founders being responsible for all startups).
FB has 2.7 billion people now.
Why is nathan lane speaking after the fact
I'm sorry guys, who's Aaron? Paul mentions the government, what happened there?
ok ok says it two comments below don't all pile on here (having now googled) damn thats a god damn shame a suicide from a guy with an entrepreneurial track record like that
Lol 8 years later and still no replies
I hate ads…
I Missed Google Wave
why does this guy say "hummmm....every 5 words?...I can't get passed it. He has some great info, but I have to admit its really annoying...
anybody notice that?
His book "Hackers and Painters" is pretty good and no hum.
Mark Mark haha
I suspect it was BUFFER!!
Aaron was quite precocious! he was obstreperous.... lol
Don't be fooled by thieves who steal again and again.
You can skip over The first 20 minutes of this video unless you want to hear how fantastic y combinator is and its entire history and blah blah blah.