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every year anyone Paul Copplestone 6Amjad Masad 5Sam Chaudhary 3Karri Saarinen 3Eeke de Milliano 1Brett Berson 1Bill Magnuson 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Hacker News comes up
The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- ▶ 5:30 Paul Copplestone I needed to use this framework, a language called Elixir, a framework called Phoenix, and I built it, and I open-sourced it, and it worked very well for our use case, and it started getting some traction on hack news, just the open-source…
- ▶ 12:37 Paul Copplestone Someone put us on Hacker News, and usually you do a launch Hacker News. 5 times in the scene
How to build a company when you’re not an optimist | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)
- ▶ 26:39 Brett Berson Did it like instantly click hacker news kind of resonance?
Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 11:12 Sam Chaudhary We all met kind of at university and McKinsey and so on, but we'd all been reading happy news. 3 times in the scene
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 0:46 Karri Saarinen It started as a side project, so, yeah, how it went was that we, we just put it on Hacker News, hey, we built this thing, and then in a couple months, we have 10,000 users on it.
- ▶ 8:38 Karri Saarinen But we built that tool and then found out a lot of people liked using, we put it online, we put it on Hacker News and then turns out like a lot of people liked using it. 2 times in the scene
How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)
- ▶ 1:11:43 unnamed speaker It was a newsletter post, and it became one of my top performing newsletter posts because someone shared it on Hacker News, and then it like made its way around a bunch of people, you know, so there are those factors which, you know, it's,…
What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Stripe)
- ▶ 15:31 Eeke de Milliano Oh my gosh, it was so controversial when it came out on Hacker News.
Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition
- ▶ 20:56 Bill Magnuson And, you know, I would spend years afterward on places like Hacker News reading these articles about, you know, startup advice, and so many of them were, you know, you got to treat your co-founder relationship like a marriage, and you got…
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 6:37 Amjad Masad And so I continued working on it nice and weakens, and it sort of exploded on Hacker News and GitHub and everywhere on the web.
- ▶ 18:03 Amjad Masad And then Paul Graham finds Repl.it on Hacker News. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:51 Amjad Masad So I'm out of Hacker News.
Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier)
- ▶ 11:03 unnamed speaker He's like famous on Hacker News and Patrick McKenzie worked for Stripe for a long time.