Ben Horowitz tells the story of Slack’s pivot from a failed gaming app into a $28B company 🤯

YC CEO Garry Tan on why learning to code is more important than ever 👩‍💻

Steve Jobs: “My model of business is The Beatles” 💼

Sam Altman on the Paul Graham advice that not enough people take to heart 🫀

Mark Zuckerberg: “There’s a difference between building good things and building awesome things” 🛠️

Sam Altman on the biggest mistake talented and hard-working people often make 🤔

Brian Armstrong explains how he built Coinbase on nights and weekends while working at Airbnb 👨‍💻

Paul Graham: “In the best startups each founder is king of their own domain” 💯

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen explains why your initial vision for your company is probably wrong 👀

Jensen Huang on Elon Musk and xAI building the fastest supercomputer on the planet in 19 days 🤯

SpaceX has its first-ever successful catch of a Super Heavy booster using its launch tower 🚀

Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley on Facebook copying their product 😬

Sam Altman’s advice for solo startup founders 🚀

Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong on the most common hiring mistakes startups make 😬

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey: “The great companies have multiple founding moments” 🙌

Patrick Collison on the importance of beauty and craftsmanship when building products 🛠️

DoorDash founder Tony Xu: “You can’t compete against an incumbent on their territory” 💯

Peter Thiel on the potential problems with the Lean Startup methodology 🤔

Mark Zuckerberg: You can’t 80/20 everything 👏

Keith Rabois: The key to LinkedIn’s success was investing 80% of resources in virality 👀

Uber founder Travis Kalanick on how to avoid bad advisor relationships for your startup 😬

Sam Altman explains the two strategies for startups building on AI 🤖

Mark Zuckerberg explains why startups often beat big companies 🚀

Mark Zuckerberg to Aditya Agarwal: “If I can build Facebook you can build a search engine” 👏

Ben Horowitz on the ideal founding team for a startup 👥

Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston: “Your idea is going to evolve” 💡

Jensen Huang: “VCs don’t invest in business plans” 💰

Bill Ackman on dealing with disaster: “Make a little progress every day” 💪

Jeff Bezos shares his favorite interview question 👤

Netflix founder Reed Hastings on the most important leadership quality for building a company 👀

How Twitter founder Ev Williams thinks about products 🧐

Ron Conway talks through fundraising best practices 💰

Uber founder Travis Kalanick explains how to attract great talent to your startup 👀

Box founder Aaron Levie tells the story selling 25% of the company for $80k 💰

Marc Andreessen: Revolutionary technologies were often viewed as “trivialities” or “jokes” 💻

Patrick Collison on the importance of being willing to wait a really long time to hire people 🗓️

Sam Altman: “Most people don’t take enough risk” 💯

Jensen Huang explains why digital biology will be “one of the biggest revolutions ever” 🚀

Mark Zuckerberg explains his playbook for building Threads, Facebook, and WhatsApp 🛠️

Gmail creator Paul Buchheit on the “obsessive focus” of founders who build $100bn companies 💰

Patrick Collison recounts Stripe’s darkest moment 😬

What Balaji Srinivasan looks for in the founders he backs 👀

Naval Ravikant on shutting down a startup: “Investors know how difficult it is” 💰

Elon Musk on the critical things to get right when building a company 💯

Box founder Aaron Levie’s advice for startups competing against incumbents 💪

Peter Thiel: “AI in 2024 is like the Internet in 1999” 🤖

Netflix founder Reed Hastings on talent density and the “keeper test” 👥

Marc Andreessen explains what VCs look for in startups 👀